Following My Feet

Follow Jeff Bevan across Somerset

Tagged: Wild Thyme

Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) - Collard Hill, Somerset, UK. ID JB1_4931

Collard Hill / Large Blue Butterfly

Collard Hill

Collard Hill Each June I visit Collard Hill near Street in Somerset.  This year with the pandemic still raging things felt a bit different.  But in this landscape social distancing  is easy. The grassland...

Large Blue (Maculinea arion) - Green Down, Somerset, UK. ID 822_5062

Green Down / Large Blue Butterfly

Large Blues IV

Today I returned to Green Down for my forth visit. The views from Green Down are beautiful, but today was not about the views instead it was my last chance to get the pictures of the large blues...

Large Blue (Maculinea arion) - Green Down, Somerset, UK. ID 822_5000

Green Down / Large Blue Butterfly

Large Blues III

Return visit in the evening to Green Down to photograph the large blue butterflies. Wild Tyme The large blue butterfly is very rare.  One of the reasons must be its complicated lifecycle.  The caterpillars...

Large Blue (Maculinea arion) - Collard Hill, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_2930

Butterflies

Please help the Large Blues!

Large Blue (Maculinea arion) – Collard Hill, Somerset, UK. ID JB5_2930 Due to the rapid grass flowering, following the recent wet period, many Wild Thyme flowers are swamped and inaccessible to egg-laying females. As...