A brown butterfly with some yellow markings on green vegetation

Ringlet. Photo: Mark Pike

An orange butterfly with black and white markings on green vegetation

Dark Green Fritillary. Photo: Mark Pike

Two photos from Mark sent in telling us:

A couple of hours at Badbury Rings today, 14/06/2026 saw a good selection of species darting around today, including a couple of Dark Green Fritillaries that passed me going about 100mph! However, the freshly emerged one here that I thought was going to be easy to photograph suddenly up and went after just this one grabbed shot, although it was rather groggy!

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