Monday 17 August 2009

Lepidoptera - A butterfly Ball!

The really beautiful Red Admiral butterfly....





A Painted Lady Butterfly... have seen lots of these this summer...



Not sure what this one is? ....





The Peacock hiding in the nasturtium leaves...




The garden is just full of beautiful butterflies this summer so have spent hours trying to photograph them - very difficult as they don't stay still for long enough . Our Buddleia bush has just been covered with them whenever the sun is out...I have been trying to identify them from an old "Observer's Book of butterflies" from 1966 !