A warm(ish) day on West Yatton Down, North Wiltshire, turned up a nice selection of butterflies today.
For the techies, I used a 25 year old Minolta 100mm f2.8 macro lens. It's a superb lens that performs as well now as it did 25 years ago.
Brown argus
Dingy Skipper
Green hairstreak
Small copper
Small heath
magnificent! I really enjoyed those, such a lovely splash of fresh spring-like colour and such incredible detail 
I love the stripy antennae (top pic) but my fav is the green hairstreak - such pretty shading on his wings - would love a ballgown in that shimmery shade 
Insects look much more beautiful and exquisite up close as Eccles brings them to us, than ever they do with the naked eye, don't they?
Wonderful I particularly like the Copper. Though the Brown Argus has to be a close second.
I'd never really taken note before of the fringes around the edges of their wings. Especially clear on the Brown Argus.
and they don't look at all concerned about the election
Oooh yes I never had noticed those either. They look the fringes on the edge of a shawl!
Is the poor little thing really a Dingy Skipper bless him 
- I wouldn't call him dingy - a beautiful shade of tawny taupe!
Spectacular and breathtaking.
[so far, our butterflies are scarce... the huge snows seem really to have suppressed the poor things. Even the cabbage whites, which generally are considered annoying, are almost a nonentity. Too bad the wretched stink bugs were unaffected by winter. And theyre meant to be warm climate bugs.]
Thanks all, glad you like them.
Asy, stink bugs are what we call shield bugs I think. Some of them can be quite impressive looking. But don't they only make the nasty smell as a defence mechanism if disturbed?