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That's reeeeely amazing! - Tim

Fantastic photos...Eric...puts mine to shame ..but here it is anyway!

Here's mine..

Peac0ck

Red Admiral

Absolutely staggering BB ..!!
Well ..my peac o c k  butterfly may be pathetic...but........thought you might like this one of me taken this summer!!!  ;)





Also found pic of Shaun...taken just after he munched all my honeysuckle........and finished up as Sunday lunch!!  :'(

This site has had  some beautiful pictures, I think I will just retire now and spend the next few years learning how to take better photos.
Have spent all Summer trying to get close enougbh to the Woodpecker to get a decent shot, but it is very shy. And I have only got a point and click camera no telephoto lenses or such like so I will have to get close. Ah well.
As a family that shouts mint sauce at every lamb we see I reckon your Shawn, Diane, did well to get to even that size.
Do you say Horseradish sauce to the cows though?

Painted what - BB?? Must be different in Holland! - Tim

Perhaps the dutch Painted Ladies are a bit butch, Tim, or the Peac*cks are a bit effeminate.


P.S. You should have seen what the Board Censor did to my first attempt.  Peathingies indeed!

Oops thanks for the corrections (I've corrected it now) what's a painted lady then - another name for a red admiral or is it a completely different flutterby ?

Hi BB...Here's one I took earlier!!   ( I wish!! )    ;D



Painted Lady

Just to see if I can post a picture!

Wahayyyyyyyy

First time lucky!

 ;D ;D ;D

Well Done !

but...

what's it called ? and when/where did you take the photo ?

OOOoo, and there I was,  all excited!  ;D  
 
Its called a butterfly ( :P ), and I took it in August on the nicotiana growing on my allotment. If you look really carefully you can see the bad infestation of greenfly I didn't know I had until I took this picture.   :-/ (I really should wear my glasses more!)  

- tried to reply last night, BB, but had a semi-crash.

Can't see MD's picture so here's my idea of a Painted Lady - Tim



Can now see your's, MD - looks mighty like a a Red Admiral to me?

City Slicker, me....

Only Painted Ladies I know are long and green and living in my freezer :-[

Brill pix, all..- Lishka

They're in the red-light district in Amsterdam too, must be the urban variety.

Hi Tim
I'm no expert on Lepidoptera, but ........my pic is possibly a male painted lady  ???  and yours is a female...naturally!! ;)

Clivia.......your little beauty is a 'speckled wood'  :)

Ina ...your cat is brilliant!!...where did you find him?

- lepi WHAT?  OK, I'll come quietly!! - Tim

Great pictures, but BB is that a Clerodenderon?