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Saturday, 7 July 2012

Highland insects

A common blue butterfly alongside birdsfoot trefoil its favourite food plant. We saw a few common blues when we were in the Assynt area.

 a small pearl bordered fritillary butterfly showing both underside and topside of wings. A closer view of the same species below. The moorlands of the Assynt area were full of these butterflies.

 Below is a Golden ringed dragonfly, plenty of those around in the moorlands.

We didn't manage to identify the dragonfly above - any ideas?


Apart from the common blue, Crafty Green Boyfriend took the photos in this blogpost.
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13 comments:

  1. eileeninmd12:31 pm

    The blue butterfly is gorgeous and so is the Fritillary. Great captures of the dragonflies, they always move around too fast for me. Gorgeous series of dragonflies and butterflies. Have a lovely weekend.

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  2. Dartford Warbler2:36 pm

    Beautiful photos. We have similar butterflies and the Goldenringed dragonfly here on the New Forest heathlands. I saw a common blue earlier this week.

    Assynt must be a wonderful wild place to explore. My OH spent a few days up there earlier this summer ( and the sun shone!).

    Hope you are OK in the Edinburgh floods!

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  3. Carol Steel 3:41 pm

    What great photos! Thanks for calling attention to small creatures we don't often notice because of their size or speed of movement.

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  4. Carver4:00 pm

    Great seeing all the butterflies and dragonflies. I hope someone can help identifying the dragonfly, I'm not sure what kind it is.

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  5. Naquillity5:17 pm

    that blue butterfly is beautiful. and i love that third picture. so much color from butterfly & flowers... thanks for sharing all these wonderful pics. have a great day~

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  6. bunnits5:27 pm

    Neat photos.

    ID for the dragonfly: Steve Borichevsky at Shooting My Universe (www.shootingmyuniverse.blogspot.com) might know. He does lots of dragonfly photography.

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  7. Ms Sparrow6:31 pm

    The blue butterfly is gorgeous! I thought they were only found in the Amazon. Lucky you!

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  8. RG4:47 am

    Great photos! You have such pretty butterflies there - such variety. We only have a few here.

    Don't know what the dragonfly is!

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  9. ashok12:31 pm

    beautiful insects...lovely clicks J

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  10. Caroline Gill11:08 pm

    I'm wondering if the Dragonfly is a kind of Chaser ... but there are several kinds! A beautiful selection of wildlife photos.

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  11. Caroline Gill10:15 am

    P.S. Some hours later ... Having just thought I was identifying a Chaser I had spotted over the w/e, I'm now fairly certain that 'my' dragonfly is a Skimmer - so now I'm feeling less sure about yours. Sorry!

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  12. Crafty Green Poet10:57 am

    Hi Caroline, thanks for thinking about it at least! I'll have more of a look around myself later i think. I like to identify things and need to know more about insects...

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  13. Sandy's witterings1:08 pm

    Great butterfly sightings - I found last year quite bad for butterflys but hopefully much better this year.

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