The Beautiful Bugs of Mid-Summer

Butterflies are the sentinels of summer - markers of sunshine and warmth.

Peacock butterfly shining in the late afternoon light.

Silver-washed fritillary - a beautiful big orange butterfly - with grey 'washed' underwings.

The red admiral.

Bumble bee on pincushion flower 

Red admiral again/

Common solider beetles enjoying a party on a platform of hog weed flowers.

The eggs of a butterfly - a couple have hatched. The butterfly is the small white or cabbage white and the food plant is my cabbages! The patch of eggs is about 4mm across.

And here they are just hatched and hungry.

Small white (adult)

Another peacock.

And another...