This butterfly posed reasonably well on good day in Scotland where I had just photographed Red-berried Elder (Sambucus racemosa) for the first time as well as seeing two Osprey chicks in a nest. There is another sub species which has the orange fore-wing band more constricted than this but all sub species are mostly found in Scotland apart from a few sites in northern England.

The larval food plant in Scotland is Purple Moor-grass (Molinia caerulea) but in England it will use the much rarer limestone species Blue Moor-grass Sesleria caerulea.

Scotch Argus Erebia aethiops ssp aethiops Grassy slope near Loch Insh, Scotland, 26th July 2009 Previous   Next

Scotch Argus Erebia aethiops ssp aethiops

Grassy slope near Loch Insh, Scotland, 26th July 2009

Added on June 12th 2010