VERY uncooperative insect.
Three musketeers' trip to Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve on what might become an annual pilgrimage in search of the Orchids ("Gait Barrows National Nature Reserve is a Natural England site renowned for its limestone pavement and rich wildlife, including the very rare lady’s slipper orchid." )
Since I was still only plodding I sent Jerra & Clicky on, using the, I thought, valid reasoning that; since I had seen them once & Clicky had not, the logical course was for them to flog on & me to trail behind at my "best speed".
Thence to "RSPB Leighton Moss" for a spot of "bird"-watching. I spent more time insect watching I resisted a comical urge to exhibit a photo of a one-legged, headless, Heron. I relented and DID add the invisible Blue butterfly (See extra, there IS a butterfly there!)
Urgent message to ALL lepidopterists:-
Do you think you could, possibly, maybe, include photos of your wee beasties with wings CLOSED? I might then be able to identify it then.
A wee bit of a disjointed entry today, more so than usual; inasmuch as the "Chaser" Dragonfly was in Leighton Moss
( guessimetrically - a Broad-bodied Chaser feel free to verify here https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/content/darters-chaser-and-skimmers) also the "Cardinal Beetle "- totally new to me.
and the Butterfly from Gait Barrows, seen on a patch of Bird's-foot-trefoil. You can have NO idea how long it took that name to surface from the depths learnt in early childhood.
:¬)
OH? The uncooperative bit? It persisted, at every flight, to land where I could SEE it, but not get a decent angle on it, and NEVER its back view.
:¬(
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