Back on the Isle of Wight  the Glanville Fritillaries are now gracing the slopes of the Sea Cliff Landslip at Freshwater and all along the s...

A butterfly encountered on numerous occasions during my wanders along the tracks around our holiday base were skippers. All attracted to the...

The Aegean Meadow Brown Maniola telmessia, is found on the island of Rhodes and as similar species are not present  it is safe to say that i...

Over the last few years I have been lucky enough to encounter the impressive Two-tailed Pasha butterfly. Not only in the field but on severa...

Almost four years have passed since I last made a visit to the Greek Islands ,so  a holiday to the island of Rhodes was much anticipated. Th...

Following a cloudy start to the day ,this afternoon was sunny  and  warmer with a brisk breeze. And the butterflies responded with another n...

With the first appearance of the Green Hairstreak at Whiteway's on the 23rd of this month,I would have expected to see other spring spec...

Persistent visits to Whiteways at Freshwater Bay finally paid off today with a first spring butterfly sighting of the year. This single Gree...

Although not as memorable as the species in my last post a good number of  butterflies have visited my garden this summer, attracted mainly ...

 In my back garden there is a well established Everlasting Sweet Pea  plant. It has now grown to a good size and flowers profusely. At this ...

Today in Bouldnor Forest the butterflies were numerous in the bright but sometimes cloudy weather. Now that the Yellow Fleabane is in flower...

 A morning visit to Bouldnor Forest was rewarded with the sighting of three summer butterflies. We are enjoying a few days of warm sunny wea...

It was a very sunny and bright start to the day but by the time I dropped into Whiteways NT carpark at  0945 this morning the dark clouds ha...