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Jani Uusitalo

July on my route is ruled by the silver-washed fritillary. With other species waning by then, these large and bright orange #butterflies are made all the more prominent by their tendency to congregate at their favorite spots.

Emergence of the females, particularly the lighter valesina form, also marks the tipping point of summer for me: after this it's mostly just encores from (overwintering) species first seen in early spring.

2023-07 Oulu, 🇫🇮

Male silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) on a lone, purple Cirsium flower, facing downward, with wings spread out on each side. Top side of the wings is deep orange, their outsides are lined with two rows of black spots, and black lines run along the forewing veins, occasionally crossed by shorter, orthogonal lines.
Female silver-washed fritillary on Angelica sylvestris umbels, facing up and slightly to the right, with wings spread out on each side and glowing yellowish orange from daylight shining through. Similar to the male, the wing outsides are lined with two rows of black spots, but instead of black forewing veins, there is a black zigzag line crossing all four wings, and more, short crossing lines on the forewing front edge.
A mating pair of silver-washed fritillaries on some green, jagged leaves, with the male on the left, facing left, and the female on the right, facing right, with her hind wings partially over his.
Female silver-washed fritillary, f. valesina, on a thorny stem, facing down and slightly to the left, with wings spread out on each side. Instead of the usual orange, the wings of the valesina are quite pale: the background color of this individual is light yellow and light brown, and the spots and other patterns are dark brown instead of black. The hairs covering the body are iridescent green, blue and yellow.
#SchmetterlingsMontag#butterfly#lepidoptodon
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hastingsmothman

1) First ever Swallow Prominent (had Lesser SP before)
2) L-album Wainscot
3) Fan-foot (also new for garden)
4) Tiddly tiny Pammene Aurita micromoth

Abysmal numerically, only 16 moths of 13 species … 150+ would not be uncommon in July, which is very concerning from perspective.
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Side view of bark mimicking moth on finger. Dark brown top of wing with white flash, lighter woody brown bottom ofwings towards wing edge
Overhead of streaky pale brown/offwhite with hints of dark brown like someone has run a comb through light paint. Two L shaped white stigmata, one on each wing, mirroring each other
Triangular, flat, mid-brown moth with three tin equidistant horizontal stripes, the middle of which is wavy and kinks up at wing edges
Tiny metallic yellow/orange moth with minute darker chequering to wing edge and dark patch to base of wings
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Ian Rose

Ben Goldfarb's latest piece in High Country News on the desperate struggle to keep a northern California butterfly species alive is a great read. Species recovery is a hard and thankless enough job with the most charismatic mammal - for insects, it's the same work, backwards and in heels, for less money. The people who do it deserve more features like this. hcn.org/issues/55.5/south-enda

www.hcn.orgInside the fight to save a beleaguered butterflyIn 2020, the population count of the Behren’s silverspot was zero. That didn’t stop Clint Pogue.
#ecology#insects#EndangeredSpecies
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