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This butterfly is our largest fritillary and gets its name from the beautiful streaks of silver found on the underside of the wings. The bright orange male is quite distinctive as it flies powerfully along woodland rides, pausing only briefly to feed or investigate anything with an orange hue that could be a potential mate. The male has four distinctive black veins on its forewings that contain special "androconial" scales that are used in courtship. These veins are known as "sex brands". The female is paler than the male, has rounder wings and more-prominent spots. (UK Butterflies)
Soooo tired today, and the weather have been terrible - rain and wind, I've felt cold & wet all day. Probably why I got indecisive on the edit on this...
Happy Butterfly Tuesday anyway :)
This silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia), sitting on a tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) was extremely cool with me taking its portrait from every angle possible.
The way the hair on its body shimmers in green and orange makes me think of punk rockers dying their mohawks.
A friend of mine (Hi, Chris!) has been talking about the advantages of overexposing macro shots and then recovering them in postproduction (when using RAWs of course).
I'm beginning to see his point really. This one was quite a bit burnt out, but as you can see, the end result came out very nice. This way there are details to be found in even the darker parts of a shot so I can definitely see the benefit.
The butterfly in this shot is Sweden's largest fritillary - the silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) and this particular one was hanging out on a thistle on the soccer-golf course (yes, that's a thing) at the Siggesta Gård conference center.
As far as I can tell this is a Silver-washed fritillary. I was quite lucky as he stayed in the same area for quite a while and came back again when he was chased away by other butterflies so I got quite a lot of shots of it. This is my favourite one.
365 days in colour
22/31 orange in July
Orange and light green are complementary colours, ie when mixed they cancel out each other. When placed next to each other they produce the strongest contrast.
I don't know if this is the reason behind the hues of this silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) and its brethren - all I can say is that they look mighty fine regardless.
A male silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) looking even more beautiful than normal on top of a purple thistle in the Paradiset Nature Reserve in Huddinge on the south-western side of Stockholm, Sweden.
Pt. 1 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/42732958940/
Pt. 2 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/46533964501/
Pt. 3 here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/52650420121/
Perched on the top of a thistle at Åva-Stensjödal in the Tyresta National Park, this silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) does have a very surprised look on its face.
This butterfly is a male of the pretty common silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia). Since this shot was taken at the Stora Vika limestone quarry in Sweden, I am not at all sure about the flower though.
The thing is, limestone is rare around these parts so the flora growing around the quarry is in large parts new to me.
Any suggestions on the species of flower are greatly welcomed. Possibly Origanum vulgare?
The silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) is Sweden's largest as well as most common fritillary.
As with other common things, this means that they often don't get appreciated enough but they really are a very attractive species.
This particular one was refueling on a couple of thistles at Åva-Stensjödal in the Tyresta National Park, just south of Stockholm, Sweden.
One of the silver-washed fritillaries (Argynnis paphia) which was enjoying the flowers in the Käringboda nature reserve when me and my son were on our way to find stag beetles.
This species lay their eggs on a tree or a tree stump in the near vicinity of violets which the caterpillars locate and eat after hatching.
Part 1 (a little further away) here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/50510809387/
A male silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) looking even more beautiful than normal on top of a purple thistle.
Two female silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) next to each other on this white variation of the purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) known as "White Swan".
The silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) is, like most butterflies really, really fond of the thistles.
I suppose that when you don't have to worry about the prickly leaves and can land directly on the pretty and obviously well-tasting flower up top it kind of changes things.
Orange and light green are complementary colours, ie when mixed they cancel out each other. When placed next to each other they produce the strongest contrast.
I don't know if this is the reason behind the hues of this silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia) and its brethren - all I can say is that they look mighty fine regardless.
A nicely fuzzy silver-washed fritillary (Argynnis paphia), the largest fritillary in Sweden, using that long proboscis to extract nectar from a thistle in Åva-Stensjödal in Tyresta National Park.
Did you know that the proboscis actually consists of two tubes, held together by small hooks and are separable for cleaning?
They also contain muscles so that they can control it as well as curl it up for when not in use.
Each of those tubes are inwardly concave which creates a central tube which is where the liquid is sucked up. The butterfly has a sac inside its head which it can contract and expand to create suction through the proboscis.