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Purple hairstreak butterfly, Loch Lomond
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CEP - Loch Lomond
Purple hairstreak (Favonius quercus) butterfly, Milarrochy Bay, Loch Lomond. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar
20 August 1983
Purple hairstreak butterfly, Loch Lomond
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CEP - Loch Lomond
Purple hairstreak (Favonius quercus) butterfly, Milarrochy Bay, Loch Lomond. Scanned from a slide taken by CE Palmar
20 August 1983
Great Yellow Bumblebee on Common knapweed, Balranald
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Western Isles - Balranald and western North Uist
Great Yellow Bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus) on Common knapweed (Centaurea nigra) at RSPB Balranald Nature Reserve, North Uist. The distinguishing feature of this rare bee is the band of black hairs across the thorax where the wings join the body.
05 August 2017
Purple Loosestrife, Pensthorpe
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Norfolk
Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) in Pensthorpe, Norfolk. Commonly found in wetland habitats, such as reedbeds and marshes.This plant can be seen flowering between June and Augus.
24 August 2023
Purple Bar moth, Insh Marshes
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Speyside near Aviemore and Newtonmore
The Purple Bar (Cosmorhoe ocellata) is a moth of the famly Geometridae. Fairly common throughout Britain it can be found in areas where bedstraws are present. Photo taken by David Palmar at Insh Marshes.
29 July 2023
Purple Loosestrife, Portencross
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West Kilbride and Portencross
Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), taken by David Palmar. This plant is found throughout the UK but is less common in Scotland.
06 August 2023
Purple Loosestrife, Portencross
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West Kilbride and Portencross
Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), taken by David Palmar. This plant is favoured by long-tongued insects such as Red-tailed Bumblebees (Bombus lapidarius) and Elephant Hawk-moths (Deilephila elpenor).
06 August 2023
Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly at Tulloch Moor. In southern parts of the UK common blues have two broods of young, usually in May and August, whereas in Scotland, they only have one brood that emerges in July. Photo taken by David Palmar
22 July 2023
Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly at Tulloch Moor. Common Blue butterflies fly throughout the summer between April and October and are the most widespread of the blue butterflies. Photo taken by David Palmar
22 July 2023
Common Blue Butterfly (male), Tulloch Moor
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Nethybridge and Dulnain Bridge
A male Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus) butterfly at Tulloch Moor. Common Blue butterflies fly throughout the summer between April and October and are the most widespread of the blue butterflies. Photo taken by David Palmar
