upon arrival in the Gran Paradiso National Park, 10 July, and some of the butterflies seen each day

Common Blue (cell-spot obscured)

Great Sooty Satyr, male

Knapweed Fritillary, female

Silver-washed Fritillary

Piedmont Anomalous Blue

Piedmont Anomalous Blue

Brown Argus? slightly aberrant hindwing

Turquoise Blue (not entirely definite)

a walk up this stunning river valley on 11 July

Swallowtail

Small Blue

Small Blue

Titania's Fritillary - found it very difficult to decide whether these 3 photos are of titania or Clossiana dia, Weaver's Fritillary...

Titania's Fritillary

Titania's Fritillary

White Satin moth (?) queried because i) day-flying ii) clearly caused a destructive infestation here

Silver-studded Blue

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Mnestra's Ringlet

Alpine Heath

Alpine Heath

looking further upstream

Sooty Copper, female

Sooty Copper female

Geranium Argus

Dingy Skipper, very worn!

Piedmont Ringlet, a variant known from the Pennine Alps, which includes the Aosta Valley

Lesser Mountain Ringlet

Lesser Mountain Ringlet

Safflower Skipper

Chalk-hill Blues

Silver-spotted Skipper

Heath Fritillary

Common White Wave, or close

tbi

Martagon Lily

looking downstream this time!

Glandon Blue

Glandon Blue

Northern Wall Brown

Northern Wall Brown

Common Brassy Ringlet

Geranium Argus, male on the left, female to the right

Geranium Argus

cropped photo