Great Southern White. This is a very common butterfly on the island, highly active during the sunshine hours and then roosting collectively often on grasses and low shrubs. Note the pale blue tips to the antennae.

Roosting group, low down in fine grasses

Another roosting group, this time on a shrub in grassland

Great Southern Whites, mating pair, the male being the yellow coloured individual

Female

Female

Male. The male undersides are quite variable, initially causing me to think that I was looking at two species of 'whites'

Another male, this one having no darker markings on the hindwing underside

Male, photographed as dusk was falling

Another dusk male

Male

Little Yellow, male

Little Yellow, female, paler than the male

Banded Yellow

Banded Yellow, female

Banded Yellow

Cloudless Sulphur, female. This is a very fast-flying species that rarely seems to stop. But when it does it often instantly selects a similarly coloured leaf to itself and disappears

Miami Blue, male, resting on an acacia shrub shoot. This is a delightful little butterfly as can be seen from the following five photos. Common on Antigua it is now a threatened species in its home state of Florida

Miami Blue

Miami Blue

Miami Blue

Miami Blue, female

Miami Blue

Cassius Blue

Scrub Hairstreak (with a very unfortunate and undeserved sub-species name)

Scrub Hairstreak

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary

Gulf Fritillary, showing the superbly marked silver-spotted underside, very similar to the Queen of Spain Fritillary found in Europe

White Peacock

White Peacock

Tropical Buckeye, a common and beautiful species

Tropical Buckeye

Tropical Buckeye

Tropical Buckeye. Note the pronounced 'eye' markings on the hindwing, one of the key identification tips for this species

Fiery Skipper

Purple-washed Skipper. This is a fast-flying, small butterfly, incredibly hard to follow in flight as it dashes from flower to flower, hardly landing before zooming off again. (At least that's my excuse for this slightly out-of-focus shot!)

Purple-washed Skipper. The purple-wash is revealed when the butterfly is photographed using flash

Tropical Checkered Skipper (apologies for the American spelling of 'Chequered'!)

Tropical Checkered Skipper