The First Post

16.05.11

Well here we are, my first ever blog - well more a means to keep a log of all the different butterflies I see and photograph in 2011 in my (current) home of sussex (east and west).

Inspired by Patrick Barkham Butterfly Isles

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/16/butterfly-isles-patrick-barkham-review

a truly great read, if like me you have ever spent many a summer month in your youth chasing butterflies around fields and meadows

Yesterday we spent a few hours at Park Corner Heath in East Sussex in search of the  Small Pearl Bordered Fritillaries (spbf) Boloria selene.


The spbf is only found in at a few protected sites across sussex unfortunately I was unable to get any good shots of the spbf as they were too quick and only settled for a few seconds, unfortunately for this one, a few seconds was all it took before...

attack of the Crab Spider

a sad demise

 Unfortunately for the butterfly the Crab Spider came out on top anyone know what the little white 'droplet' on the spbf thorax is - venom perhaps?

Other species seen, included my first ever Brown Argus (a male), 2 Small Heaths, several Common Blues, a Brimstone and a Grizzled Skipper (poss ab taras aberrant - thoughts appreciated) plus a Crimson Spot Tiger Moth

Male Brown Argus on Bugle, a first

Grizzled Skipper, aberrant, ab taras

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