Bastille and Butterflies

Here are some of the the visitors to our Buddliha. These are often referred to as the butterfly bush for obvious reasons. Most are seen on the Buddliha but others were found around the garden........

 

 

 

 

The wonderfully named Brimstone, this is a male of the species has an amazing likeness to a yellow green leaf with the body being it's stem / petiole and even what look like the blades and veins on a real leaf. 

 





Here we have a Grayling feeding on the buddleia, they drop their proboscis into the long slender flowers and suck up the nectar.

 

 

 

This male keeps returning to this one concrete fence post, it gives him a very warm place to rest plus a clear view to spot any passing females.

 

A Large White female. 

 a slow flying Meadow Brown male, they are rather large and very dark when wings are open

 

Here is a Comma female feeding on one of the rather ripe banana we leave out for them to feast on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The one above needs no introduction but the ones below are Common Blues

 

 

 

 

This was a new one to me - it is a Cloudy Yellow

 

 

 

and finally a couple of shots of the Bastille night Fireworks...............

 

 

Here we have the crowd dancing around the DJ stand in the towns Velodrome it is not a doctored shot just a long exposure.