WALKING WITH BUTTERFLIES

The year was 2016.

The hot summer of that year.

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I was walking up and down the place called Vizula. A small peninsula in the bay of Medulin, my hometown.

The small compact camera that I was carrying with me back then was pretty bad. Barely functional.

The quality of the camera is definitively visible in these muddled, grainy photographs I'm presenting here today.

The equipment wasn't great, but the morning light was beautiful and I saw plenty of butterflies along the way. No picture can look too bad if it involves butterflies.

In this first series of photographs, you can see the Papilio machaon, commonly known as the common yellow swallowtail.

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The butterfly was flying among the thistles, visiting flower after flower.

A diurnal moth was also feeding on these relatively big, juicy flowers. This is the hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum).

A bit further I came across this cabbage white (Pieris rapae), and then ...

... I saw another butterfly on the thistle.

This is the Lasiommata megera ...

... commonly known as the wall brown.

While passing through a pine grove I saw another swallowtail.

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This Papilio machaon was resting high on the tree.

The next encounter was on the thistle again.

This is the Boloria dia ...

... commonly known as the weaver's fritillary.

After photographing this species ...

... I passed by two southern white admirals (Limenitis reducta).

This is the last species I photographed on that occasion.

The Argynnis paphia. Commonly known as the silver-washed fritillary.

AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.