Butterflies

The comma is easily recognised by the 'ragged' or sculpted edge to its wing.  Its name comes from a small white splodge on the underside.

I'd never seen this in a red admiral before. Look online or in the books and they show the wings from above, or rarely a glance of the underside but with only a hint of greeen in a partly folded wing. Here though I caught the full underside as the butterfly was feasting on ivy in late Autumn. The full wing shows what looks like a convincing pair of eyes.

One of our smaller butterflies but still worth looking out for. I found this specimen resting on a stone on a path I was walking, somewhere around the Welsh coast.

The Speckled Wood, is more of a shady woodland butterfly, but this one came to visit our tent on a campsite down at The Lizard.

I never knowingly saw one of these until a couple of years ago, as I had not really observed them and just assumed they were red admirals flashing orange white and brown wings at me.

Another of the smaller butterflies, but with a little sky blue contrasting the orange and brown of its wings.

The whites are often overlooked as plain and a pest on cabbages, but they can be just as beautiful as the more colourful breeds.