Sallow Kitten, Gubblecote, 30 July, and the next 4 photos

Sallow Kitten, enjoying a spot of sunshine, 30 July

Single-dotted Wave, 30 July

Small Dotted Buff, 30 July

Straw Underwing, 30 July

Kent Black Arches, a small (c10mm) and rare visitor to Hertfordshire, at Gubblecote, 24 July

Dusky Sallow, 24 July

Bucks, the flowery hillside down from the trig point, 17 July afternoon, and the next three shots

Chalk-hill Blue, male

a different male

male underside

Large Skippers, male central, female top right, Bernwood Forest, Bucks, and the following 10 photos, the morning of 17 July

Comma

Red Admiral

Peacock

Gatekeeper, female

Gatekeeper, female, living dangerously right next to a crab spider victim, the Ringlet

Gatekeeper, male

Gatekeeper, male

Silver-washed Fritillary, female, hinting at form valesina

the same insect

Brimstone, female

Tree-lichen Beauty, a rare migrant, the 'moth catch of the year', Gubblecote, 17 July

Double Lobed, Gubblecote, 17 July

Coronet, Gubblecote, 17 July

Coronet

Peacock butterfly pupa, Gubblecote, 14 July

the same Peacock pupa

a greener colour form of a Peacock pupa

Scalloped Oak, Gubblecote, 12 July

Brown-line Bright-eye, Gubblecote, 12 July

Middle-barred Minor, day-flying, Haweswater, Lake District, 6 July

southern shore, east-central Lake District, Cumbria, 6 July

a 1,600' climb to one of the sites for Mountain Ringlet

from the summit of Kidsty Pike

Small Heath, White Scar, Whitbarrow, 7 July

on an overcast and drizzly afternoon