#ButterflyBoy 🦋 Amateur Wildlife Photographer | Natural History Enthusiast 🏳️🌈 Small Biz Owner | Ex Digital Media Officer for Butterfly Conservation
Drew Cooper
Black-veined White (Aporia crataegi) and Forester moth (Adscita sp).
Photographed this week in Eyne, Pyrénées-Orientales.
Drew Cooper
A male Silver-studded Blue (Plebejus argus), photographed in the New Forest.
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Lengthy antennae on this male Yellow-barred Longhorn (Nemophora degeerella) today.
Photographed in Dorset.
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Mazarine Blue (Cyaniris semiargus), photographed in Eyne, Pyrénées-Orientales.
European Cave Spider (Meta menardi), found in the old gun battery tunnels on Portland in Dorset, UK.
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Purple Hairstreak (Favonius quercus)
Not my best photo but couldn’t not share the beautiful colour of this female butterfly.
Photographed in the French Pyrenees.
Iberian Scarce Swallowtail (Iphiclides feisthamelii)
A stunning butterfly, it was long considered a subspecies of the Scarce Swallowtail (I. podalirius) but it is now accepted as a standalone species.
Photographed in the French Pyrénées.
Made a friend earlier this month in #Malta 🇲🇹
Mediterranean chameleon (Chamaeleo chamaeleon)
Marsh Fritillary (Euphydryas aurinia), photographed in Dorset earlier this month.
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My first Meadow Brown (Maniola jurtina) of 2026.
Photographed in Dorset today.
