Clouded Yellow and Long-tailed Blue

Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus, aberrant form

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Yesterday I returned to Southwick. Five species were still showing here: Clouded Yellow, Common Blue, Small Copper, Small White and a brief sighting of a Long-tailed Blue. This aberrant form of the Clouded Yellow had a beautiful upperside which I managed to capture with high speed photography.

Bristly Ox-tongue, Picris echioides

Brown-tail, Euproctis chrysorrhoea, larval webs

Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus, abberant form

Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus, abberant form

Clouded Yellow, Colias croceus, abberant form

Goldfinch, Carduelis carduelis

Grasshopper and Neil

Long-tailed Blue, Lampides boeticus

recycling waste

Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas

female Small White, Pieris rapae