The 2016  butterfly season in the UK has been disappointing with sightings down on recent years.The results of The Big Butterfly Count can ...

The site of  ancient Rome's chariot racing stadium,Circus Maximus is in the centre of the city between the Palatine and Aventine Hills....

With autumn here any nectar rich flowering plants in the garden are now attracting butterflies. Along with the reliable Red Admiral. I am s...

Not too far from Wheelers Bay is Bonchurch Down , well known for its downland butterflies.This south facing Down has a good population of A...

Red Valerian is known by numerous other names one of which is Devil's Beard.So on a long overdue visit ot Wheelers Bay yesterday it was...

Skipper butterflies can be very insignificant mainly due to their small size and also because of their fast and low flight.While on the Gre...

Three of our four Isle of Wight downland blues were on show today.On West  High Down reasonable numbers of Chalkhill Blue roamed over the c...

August is the month for a holiday to the Greek Islands and it was back to the Aegean Island of Thassos.Near to the resort of Scala Panagia ...

After several visits to the Greek Islands and encountering the butterflies that are in the vicinity of our holiday homes,I have learnt to b...

With very recent reports of a second generation  of Small Blues on the mainland,I was very pleased to see several  at Whiteways Quarry toda...

The White-letter Hairstreak colony discovered last year on a disease resistant elm in Newport is still going strong. The first individual w...

This typical British 'on-off' summer  is perhaps on again, with my first sighting of a Chalk-hill Blue on West High Down today.In f...

While in my local copse today I encountered this Meadow Brown aberration.Funnily enough it was in the exact same location as another simila...