#Purple Emperor

[scottpartridge]

Posting something for #summerbuggin24 - a #purpleemperor #butterfly . It seems there are a few Purple Emperors - this one is the Japanese or Great Purple Emperor, Sasakia charonda.

#summerbuggin2024 is hosted by @lisap_illustrations@kirstensneathart and @artyreg77

[wildlifegermany]

[emmanuel-the-manual]

Purple emperor 👑

[thebekashow]

Purple emperor caterpillars are so silly please gush over them with me-

They so wittle and they got such a coot smile i wanna PETTT THEMMM

They got the wittle ":3" face KSONSPENWOENE THEY SO CUTEEEE IM SORRY

[fireflywingss]

a nonbinary purple emperor butterfly

[dansnaturepictures]

03/07/2024-Phone photo of Cupid's darts in Winchester at lunch time, Purple Emperor at Knepp on Saturday and beautiful sky scenes and tree out the front on a stunning evening tonight with one sky from this morning.

Purple Hairstreak and Whitethroat at Lakeside and Grey Wagtail at the Weirs, Peregrine at St. Thomas Church and water-crowfoot at Abbey Gardens in Winchester were nice sightings today.

[indoorscreamingvoice]

Purple emperor butterfly :))

[i-eat-butterflies-when-im-alone]

FREYER'S PURPLE EMPEROR BUTTERFLY

wow!!!!!!!!!!!

nice!!!!!!!!!!!! nicer than your freshly baked pies at least!!!!!!!!!! I'd suggest learning how to cook!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lucidpeech]

The Emperor, in Alexander McQueen RTW 2023

[heartnosekid]

the great purple emperor (sasakia charonda) | source

[do-you-know-this-animal]

This is:

Apatura iris, aka purple emperor, aka batolec duhový

Fun fact!

They change colors based on the angle the light hits their wings! They are actually brown, but can shift between purple and metallic blue. What a gorgeous critter!

[raffi-cat]

emperor

[jeeaark]

I wish the emperor in bg3 was as cool ( and hunky ) as you make them out to be, how you portray the gang and greygold is all so sweet 😭😭😭 but after finding out what he did to Duke stelmane... I'll just pretend your version is canon instead. I love your art!

Right, so originally I wasn't gonna abroach that topic with a 13½ ft pole, because sensitive subject, but gonna have to roll up my sleeves and acknowledge it was very much indeed a topic that Greygold had to consider and formulate their own conclusions on. Sure even though Greygold didn't find out the be-hella-mean way, there were concerned friends with mindful observations that had Greygold confronting the possibility that the Emperor and Stelmane's secret underground business practices might've had some uh...Problems!

The conversation went a lil everywhere BUT in short-

Greygold's philosophy is to hope for the best, but always prepare for the worst.

Case in point: Greyg's team. Maybe not everyone did shitty things in their past, but they certainly had ample opportunity to do shitty things on this journey that Greygold had to veer them away from. As Greygold sees it, if their teammates can change for the better, hopefully the Emperor can and will too. Everybody is capable of being awful, but also being awesome kind, so gotta give the squid a chance.

[qcoded]

They're going to the FNAF movie REAL (guess who's idea it was)

[emmanuel-the-manual]

A rainbow of moths and butterflies I’ve drawn this year!

Also there won’t be art for a while- I’ve broken my dominant arm and cannot draw for a month while it heals up.

Thank you so much for the love on the bug drawings!

[dansnaturepictures]

Six of my favourite flora and fauna photos I took in June 2024, six of my favourite landscape and sky photos I took in June 2024 and month summary

The photos are of; Gannet at Bempton Cliffs, Silver-studded Blue at Acres Down in the New Forest, Black-tailed Skimmer at Testwood Lakes, Grey Seal at Flamborough Head, bee orchid and Marbled White at Lakeside Country Park, views at Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs, sunset at home, views at Knepp and Lakeside Country Park and rainbow at home.

June was another incredible and packed wildlife month for me. It was a pleasure to experience the immersive and heartening spectacle of seabird colonies which our week in away in Yorkshire to open the month centred on at Bempton Cliffs and surrounding areas. Glorious Gannets, captivating Kittiwakes, fabulous Fulmars, perfect Puffins, gorgeous Guillemots and ravishing Razorbills were amazing to witness among other species. New to my year list Yellow Wagtail and Grey Partridge, Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, Little Ringed Plover, Reed Bunting, Stonechat, Shag, Little Tern and Sandwich Tern were other highlights in Yorkshire. Also starring throughout the month were warblers Whitethroat, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Reed Warbler and Sedge Warbler, Linnets, Greenfinches, Redstart, Swallows, Swifts, House Martins, lots of Egyptian Geese, the Petersfield Heath Pond Ruddy Shelduck always a great bird to see, Common Terns, Grey Heron, Moorhens with young, Great Crested Grebes, Greylag and Canada Geese with goslings and Mallards with ducklings, Oystercatcher and young, Peregrine, Red Kite, White Stork and an exquisite and precious Turtle Dove at Knepp as my year list continued to soar to great heights being in positions on the dates that only last year's list my highest ever had bettered.

It was a very interesting month for butterflies as June often is. I came into the month catching up a little seeing my first Small Copper of the year one I usually do in spring at Fen Bog Nature Reserve in the North York Moors, where at home I'd already seen summer signpost Meadow Brown. Then when back from Yorkshire where I might have expected more of the summer species to be about probably due to the weather a lot there was a lull with not many insects emerging for a week or so. But then one by one, helped majorly by the weather picking up, on patch at Lakeside and elsewhere I ticked off the summer species. Splendid Silver-studded Blue, marvellous Marbled White, rustic Ringlet, lovely Large Skipper, another catch up as I was captivated by my delayed first Comma of the year at Testwood Lakes seeing them again at Knepp, special Small Skipper views and I ended the month gleefully observing in awe as Purple Hairstreaks danced along Lakeside's northern oak tops and I saw them again at Knepp alongside another purple, the summer juggernaut Purple Emperor. Dark Green Fritillary and Gatekeeper late additions to the month. As my butterfly year saw a surge in sightings to add to my year list this month other species enjoyed included a varied list of Orange Tip, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Large White, many more Meadow Browns, Small Heath and Painted Lady. I had a good moth month too seeing Cinnabar moth, Garden Grass-veneer, Brown House moth, Five-spot Burnet and Burnet Companion with Burnet moth caterpillars and the Lackey moth caterpillar, Brown-tail moth caterpillar and Garden Tiger moth caterpillar great sights this month too.

Elsewhere my dragonfly and damselfly year boomed too with special views of one I adore Golden-ringed Dragonfly at Fen Bog Nature Reserve and Testwood Lakes and eagerly anticipated first views of the year of Black-tailed and Keeled Skimmers, Common Darter and Southern Hawker. Blue-tailed and Azure Damselfly and demoiselles have stood out too. It was another top beetle month with Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil, Common Red Soldier beetle, ladybirds and lots of Swollen-thighed beetle great to see. It was another smashing month of mammals with the Grey Seals in Yorkshire alongside Brown Hare, Field Vole and amazing views of Weasel strong moments. Fallow Deers, New Forest Ponies, Rabbit and Grey Squirrel were ones I enjoyed seeing this month too as my year list pulled level with last year's total to make it my joint highest ever. Other highlights springing to mind are seeing a Common Lizard at Fen Bog Nature Reserve, spiders, hornets, bees, Meadow Plant Bug a new one for me seen a couple of times, crickets and grasshoppers including Dark Bush Cricket and Roesel's Bush Cricket, dock bugs and at least one Millipede it's always interesting to observe parts of nature I might not always give the most attention.

Much like insects it's been a really productive month for flowers. Seeing bee and pyramidal orchids in all their ethereal mystique emerge at Lakeside such rewarding flowers to see and hogweed and red campion paint Bempton Cliffs' fields pink and white were magical moments. Also standing out this month were heath, marsh, hedge and lady's bedstraw, agrimony, dock, tufted vetch, eyebright, self-heal, centaury, white clover, red clover, crosswort, fantastic fragrant orchid, heath and common spotted orchid, ivy-leaved toadflax, purple loosestrife, great willowherb, wild carrot, yarrow, ragwort, St. John's-wort, knapweed, thistle, melilot, musk and common mallow, scarlet pimpernel, bird's-foot trefoil, vetch, grass vetchling, tufted vetch, bush vetch, rosebay willowherb, buttercups, lesser stitchwort, ox-tongue, oxeye daisies, meadow crane's-bill, evening primrose, forget-me-not and bindweed as we titled into big summer species. It was interesting to see hawthorn and rowan berries and blackthorn sloes emerge early.

Finally I have taken in some amazing views this month between the excellent east Yorkshire coast, North York Moors, the New Forest and the rich grassland of Knepp, Lakeside and others as well as nice forest, lake, river and wetland views. Summer sunsets are the most exciting for me and I enjoyed some fantastic scarlet skies and other nice sky scenes this month. Have a great July all.