Mariposa setting the standard! 🤩💜💖
10.03.2026 11:45
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Mariposa setting the standard! 🤩💜💖
A female Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) egg-laying on Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Two eggs of the Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) on Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa)
Excited to see one of my PhD chapters now published! We found a trade-off between the quality of host plants and how warm they were for a declining grassland butterfly (Small Copper, Lycaena phlaeas) and looked at how this shaped their egg-laying choices: doi.org/10.1111/een....
Lovely images! Great treasure hunt 💎 🤩
Very pretty 🤩
Sounds both intriguing and extremely exciting!
Love a good news story 🦋😃
Irresistible opportunity to sample Cypriot Delights with two of the best! 💎🤩💜
Just the best!
Does she tend to wander off? 🤣🤣
They clearly enjoy good breakfasts 😂
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Hard work, but isn’t it rewarding when you look at what you’ve achieved at the end of the day? Here’s to all us volunteers 🤩
Glorious sight!
Not weeds! No way! They are gorgeous 💜
That’s insane!!
You were there too! 😂💜
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I was very excited! 🤩
Took a “short” detour on my way back to Devon to get the Orchid season underway. Himantoglossum robertianum looking quite resplendent on a steep embankment. Got to love the green goggles! #wildflowerhour #orchids #giantorchids #beautifulflowers😍
Such weird looking creatures
Found these in January - Fabulous to see them in flower 🤩
Oh Richard! This looks so beautiful. Hope your weekend has been a success (of course it has!) despite the dramatic start.
Another enticing postcard🤩 Hope to see these gorgeous plants for myself in the not too distant! 😍
That was quite the moment, and very cleverly captured 🐝
Loving the postcards! Loving the finds!💎💜
We RSPB volunteers don’t often get to work on the wet heath beside this wet woodland area. Just had to nip in and absorb the ethereal atmosphere there
Fabulous! A fully emerged Mr Mariposa!🦋🤩
Funky punky flower!
Shocking! I would have been incandescent- as I’m sure you were.
You have to seek solace where you can, Roger!
Hoping to get to see these on Sunday! 🤞😬