Butterfly orchids were in their prime this day.
All the pictures were taken from the paths and mostly with a zoom lens to avoid flattening dozens of orchids to photograph the best one. Sadly one sees that too often.
Butterfly orchids in a "forest" of Common Twayblades.
Early-purple orchids had gone over except an occasional late one in the shade.
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Fly orchid |
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Fragrant orchid |
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Dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria |
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Dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria |
See
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/dyers-greenweed
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Meadow Brown |
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Grass-veneer moth |
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Grass-veneer moth |
Spotted Crane-fly,
Nephrotoma crocata copulating.
Adonis Blue butterfly, female.
Small Heath butterfly.
Beware this prehistoric monstrous serpent lurking in the woods.