Butterfly ident.

[ABtrees]

11 hours ago, nepia said:

I'll grab (attempt) the easy ones.  

Bee Hawk Moth; Black-Veined White.

Yeah spot on.  Help me out with these 2 pls.  Two (not great) pics of each of 2 blues (even though one of them is brown ! )

[nepia]

There are so many blues - especially on mainland Europe - that you need to have either a good book or be an expert to get them right.  I fall into the first group (courtesy of the 3-book Richard South series re Moths & Butterflies of the British Isles).

So being a shameless cheat I say Small Blue for the top one, Adonis Blue for the bottom one.

[Stubby]

4 hours ago, nepia said:

There are so many blues - especially on mainland Europe - that you need to have either a good book or be an expert to get them right.  I fall into the first group (courtesy of the 3-book Richard South series re Moths & Butterflies of the British Isles).

So being a shameless cheat I say Small Blue for the top one, Adonis Blue for the bottom one.

Check with Vesp if you need an expert .......

[nepia]

Vesps are wasps - they have no place on this thread ?

[Mull]

Cinnabar moth?

[nepia]

Yes.  Have you ever seen the equally impressive caterpillars on ragwort?

[Mick Dempsey]

Jersey Tiger Moth, lovely thing, tried to get that flash of red when the wings open, half succeeded.

[Mick Dempsey]

Scarce Swallowtail on Verbena 

Edited July 15, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[ABtrees]

Ok so here's a couple of (for me) slightly rarer ones - been in France for a week before anyone gets in any way excited - or not !

 

And I found a couple of other oddities posted on iggly thread