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All the Butterfly trays now identified - thanks to all!

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David E:
Max, I'm pretty sure Agrias Lugens is correct and I believe I just need to correctly identify the Holly Blue - see my earlier post (think we crossed!  :-*)

Max:
Your Holly Blue looks the same as the one in my book, except mine is a little darker and the wings are more separated.  Probably your one is just resting.  ;D  I'll send you a scan.

Its latin name appears to be:  Celastrina Argiolus   if that's any help.

Very strange about the Agrias Lugens though. I've been all over my book, by name and by characteristics and can't find anything similar.  Maybe the Victorians killed them all.  :-\  I hope Kev can shed some light on that, it's annoying me that I can't find it!

David E:
A couple of links

Agrias Lugens

Agrias Lugens

Max:
Using the net is cheating!!!   >:D ;)

Bernard C:
David — My list (other replies unread as I didn't want to get confused)

[*]1. Red Admiral — Correctly identified.
[*]2. Agrias Lugens — Correctly identified.
[*]3. Milkweed — Identified in your images as "? ? ?" — better known here as the Monarch butterfly, a rare vagrant from N. America.
[*]4. Swallowtail — Correctly identified.
[*]5. Peacock — Correctly identified.
[*]6. Holly Blue — Identified in your images as "Milkweed?" — note the unmistakeable row of black dots on the underside of the forewing.  We saw about five or six of these at Grange Arch, Isle of Purbeck last summer, feeding off bramble flowers.

We only discovered at the end of last year that we live in a stronghold of the rare Wood White, with three local woods managed for this species.   So we will be there, first week in June, hoping to see not only this beauty, but also the male's strange wing-bashing behaviour;  see this video.

Bernard C.  8)

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