Pic 1: What better way to welcome the Spring than managing to capture this pair of Small Tortoiseshells. Taken in Porthkerry Park, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan on 8.3.2014. Natural light with Canon 40D and 100mm macro. Pic 4 & 5:...

Pic 1 – 5: September was a good month for Red Admirals feasting on Ivy. During Autumn, when nectar and pollen sources dwindled, the ivy provided a much welcome source of food for many insects; such as the common wasp, late-season...

The soft and velvety wings of the Ringlet are bordered with the characteristic fine white fringe that shines as it catches the sun. The undersides are adorned with distictive and gleaming eye spots. It is these that gave this butterfly...

Pic 1: Perching with wings held wide open and pressed flat against the top of a leaf, this Speckled Wood is absorbing the warmth from the sun. The males occupy sunlit spots where a gap in the canopy allows the sun...