Identify please (insects)

[fausto copy]

Hopefully some of you entomologists and lepidopterists out there can identify these for me, please:

I think the first one is of a Cinnabar moth, but no idea of the butterfly above it.
Red beetles for the next one?
And some type of Hawker for the third?

Just trying to catalogue some of my photos, so would be nice to name them correctly.
Incidentally all taken some years back at Barnack Hills & Holes reserve in Cambridgeshire.
Thanks, fausto.

[Heltor Chasca]

Small skipper, 6 spot burnet, common red soldier beetle and common darter.

[Heltor Chasca]

Let me know what field guides you need and I'll make recommendations. Nice photos.

[Heltor Chasca]

BTW good you thought the skipper was a 'butterfly'. Easily mistaken as a 'moth'. All from last year or before [emoji6]

[Tacascarow]

Let me know what field guides you need and I'll make recommendations. Nice photos.

I can thoroughly recommend this one.

[Heltor Chasca]

Let me know what field guides you need and I'll make recommendations. Nice photos.

I can thoroughly recommend this one.

Richard Lewington is a legend. This book is on my wish list. I got into bombus 2 years ago and I'm addicted...b

[661-Pete]

Just out of interest, here is something you won't see on your travels in the UK, nor anywhere in Europe: I snapped this in Indonesia a couple of weeks ago.

Lots and lots of spectacular butterflies to observe, but most of them just wouldn't stay still long enough to be photographed - and I have little skill as a wildlife photographer. But luckily this one found something tasty to lick off a discarded plastic spoon.

I think I've identified it correctly as Junonia orithya - the Blue Pansy - one of the Nymphalidae and not-too-distantly related to our own familiar Small Tortoiseshell, judging by wing patterns. Quite a beauty I think you'll agree.

[Heltor Chasca]

I agree on the beauty!

[old_windbag]

When I was in my old job I had ordered a book from amazon. Anyway the book arrived at work as I was chatting to a work colleague. He said "oh you've bought a book" as it sat in it's brown card sleeve. "Yes I said", he said "oh what is it" expectantly......... "Its a wildflower guide" I said. He physically stepped back from me as if I had suddenly turned into larry grayson . Couldn't believe his reaction.

Anyway it's a very good book. I find using this with some of the collins photo style book is useful.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Wild-Flower-Revised-Edition/dp/0723251754

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_17?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=collins+wildlife+books&sprefix=collins+wildlife+%2Cstripbooks%2C204


On a wildlife aside, I collected my rescued hedgehog from the sanctuary today. In fact I got two for the price of one..... apparently a man did not wish his back as he does not like them . I have released them into my garden with food and water plus their box until they are settled. But the only took 5 minutes to be out and about. Neighbour was happy to have some hedgehogs but not to have a small cutout in the fence for their mobility as she said it might let mice into her garden? What world do people live in, they clearly don't see the activity in their garden at night.

[DaveP]

Don't mock!
If she has a mouse proof fence she's siting behind a fortune

[old_windbag]

I think her stance is probably just that letting those woodmice in will take job's from the woodmice in her garden and their children will starve. I can see from my upstairs window woodmice in dinghys crossing the 4ft wide stream just to get to our gardens. Pretty extreme behaviour on their part. It's a terrible situation that the government is blind to.

[fausto copy]

Thanks for the info chaps. I knew you'd know!

So, without googling further, the small skipper is a moth is it?

Ta, fc.

[Heltor Chasca]

Thanks for the info chaps. I knew you'd know!

So, without googling further, the small skipper is a moth is it?

Ta, fc.

No a butterfly often mistaken for a moth...b