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12/01/2012, Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
A Damen ASD Type 2810 for Iskes Tugs of Ijmuiden.
Keel laid on 25/11/2010, launched on 18/04/2011, and completed on 14/10/2011.
Hull built by Damen Galati, Galati, Romania (511580)
Outfitted by Damen Gorinchem, Gorinchem, Netherlands (511580)
294 g.t., 98 dwt., & 62.5 tons bollard pull, as:
'Argus'.
Photo with the kind permission of Willem Koper.
I was out early yesterday taking photos of roosting butterflies. This is a brown argus and is the start of the second brood so hopefully a lot more to come
A little TTV for this lovely Monday morning. Hope you all had a great weekend!! I'm off to the gym...be back later to check on all your streams xxxx
I've been considering a trip to seek out the Scotch Argus for some time now, the only English locations being Arnside Knott by Morecambe Bay and Smardale Gill in Cumbria.
The latter is by far the more reliable with greater numbers around. This year, somebody reported over 400 at the Cumbrian site, and I imagine I saw at least 50 without exploring further which would have doubtless increased my personal count.
Despite the name, the species is found in many places over Europe, especially on higher ground.
Smardale Gill, Cumbria
10th August 2021
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Aricia agestis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775), aka the brown argus, is a butterfly in the “blues” family of Lycaenidae. This small butterfly is widespread across the Palearctic ecozone. Unlike most other "blues", the Brown Argus has no blue scales on its upperside, being primarily brown in colour as its common name suggests, although the butterfly does exhibit a blue sheen when at certain angles to the light. They have beautiful orange spots on the upperside of both forewings and hindwings. This species occurs in small, compact colonies, and is not a great wanderer, only travelling a couple of hundred metres, at most, from where it emerged.
I took this photo last June when visiting Almyrolivado picnic site at Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. A straightforward handheld macro shot, taken with Nikon D750 and Nikon 105 mm f/2.8 VR, with a 1/200s shutter speed at f/16 and ISO 100, plus SB-900 flash diffused. Other than minor sharpening and 1:1 cropping, editing was minimal.
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The Northern Brown Argus occurs across northern Europe and the mountains further south but the form that occurs in Scotland occurs nowhere else. This beautiful (and little-photographed) form has a white spot on the forewing and the under side spots are white without black centres. These features are controlled by a single recessive gene, seemingly present in all Scottish butterflies and a small proportion of butterflies on the County Durham coast. Butterflies in northern England lack the white spot and have small black centres to the underside spotting. The larvae usually feed on Rock Rose.
Northern Brown Argus (Aricia artaxerxes) was discovered on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh in 1795, and there was much debate as to whether they were a distinct species or just a subspecies of the Brown Argus (Aricia agestis). This has now been settled unequivocally, and it is a full species that also occurs in mountains in Europe, where it is known as the Mountain Argus. The white-spotted form though, appears to be unique to Britain.
The populations of northern England usually lack the white forewing spots, and also have black-spotted undersides, making them look more like Brown Argus. In this respect they also resemble the European forms of Mountain Argus. It does not seem to be particularly well-known (it isn’t mentioned in either Jeremy Thomas’ excellent book, or the Millennium Atlas) but the full white-spotted form occurs in coastal populations in County Durham (as well as Scotland) making up about 20% in some populations. The inland colonies in County Durham, though just a few miles away rarely, if ever produce the full white-spotted form.
This photograph was taken in one tiny colony on the County Durham coast. They are single brooded, flying from late June, and their caterpillars feed on Rock Rose (Helianthemum nummularium). The habitat is extremely steep crumbling cliffs, where the necessary open areas seem to be maintained by landslips rather than grazing.
Found widely across Southern and Central England and Wales, the Brown Argus is a small butterfly, most often found on chalk or limestone grassland, where the common rock-rose, a wildflower on which the caterpillar feeds is present.
Brown Argus butterflies are found in small groups or colonies, and emerge from two broods each season, the first brood emerging early May-June, and the second in late July.
Although appearing to be quite active during warm sunny weather each individual very rarely strays above a few metres from where it first emerged.
Toujours aussi beau et photogénique ce petit Argus bleu, mais le plus extraordinaire c'est son cycle de vie.!
Après avoir pendu ses oeufs et l'éclosion de ces derniers, les larves se nourrissent de la plante hôte puis se laissent tomber par terre sur le chemin des fourmis, qui les prennent pour des leurs, les amènent dans la fourmilière et les nourrissent copieusement.!
Mais le jour J quand le papillon sort de sa chrysalide et doit sortir de la fourmilière à l'air libre, il a intérêt à faire vite avant que les fourmis ne s'aperçoivent de la supercherie.!
Sinon il finira au menu du jour.
Always so beautiful and photogenic this little blue Argus, but the most extraordinary is its life cycle!
After hanging eggs and hatching, the larvae feed on the host plant and then fall to the ground on the path of ants, which take them for their own, bring them into the anthill and feed them copiously. !
But on D-day when the butterfly comes out of its chrysalis and has to get out of the anthill in the open air, it is better to do it quickly before the ants can see the trickery!
Otherwise it will end at the menu of the day.
18/01/2025, Port Lockroy, Antarctica.
A former Danish buoy/lighthouse Vessel, since converted to a passenger ship, that specialises in Arctic & Antarctic expedition voyages.
It remains Danish registered.
Keel laid on 01/09/1970, launched on 30/01/1971, & completed on 01/06/1971, by Svendborg Skibsværft, Svendborg, Denmark (135)
1,244 g.t. & 610 dwt., as:
'Argo' to 1971,
'Argus' to 2000,
'Esvagt Alpha' to 2022, &
'Argus' since.
Photo with the kind permission of Ovanes Agaryan.
The Northern Brown Argus occurs across northern Europe and the mountains further south but the form that occurs in Scotland occurs nowhere else. This beautiful (and little-photographed) form has a white spot on the forewing and the under side spots are white without black centres. These features are controlled by a single recessive gene, seemingly present in all Scottish butterflies and a small proportion of butterlies on the County Durham coast. Butterflies in northern England lack the white spot and have small black centres to the underside spotting. This one is also unusual by its almost complete absence of orange lunules around the wing edge. Just a few faint lunules persist on the hindwings.
I was annoyed with this photograph as my depth of focus wasn't deep enough to bring the wing tips into crisp focus. My aperture was f8 but should have gone to f16.
Magnifique petit papillon venu d'Europe.
L'Argus bleu, Azuré commun, Azuré de la Bugrane ou Petit Bleu commun (Polyommatus icarus) est une espèce de lépidoptères de la famille des Lycaenidae et de la sous-famille des Polyommatinae. Largement répandue en Eurasie, elle est un des papillons les plus communs en Europe.
Il s'est installé au Québec il y a une vingtaine d'année.
Nikon D5100 + AF-S Nikkor 18-55 @ 55mm
@St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
Henosepilachna Argus. Contrary to most species of Coccinellidae, these feed on plants such as Solanaceae and Cucurbitaceae. In these pictures the plant appears to be the Ecballium Elatenum.
Differentiating Brown Argus and Common Blue from their undersides can be problematic.
The undersides differ in that the Brown Argus has almost vertical twin spots (figure of eight) on the top edge of the hindwing, and has no cell spot on the forewing.
Petit collier de corail.
Je suis toujours dans le tri de photos profitant du mauvais temps.
I'm still sorting out my photos as the weather is grey and rainy.
This years hot, dry weather has really helped the butterflies at Summer Leys. I've never seen so many common blues, brown argus and small coppers
This is a Northern Brown Argus roosting early morning on a Glaucous Sedge. This form that lacks black centres to its underside white spots, appears to be unique to Britain, and also has a white spot in the centre of its upper forewings like this: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5872655935/in/photolist This same species does occur across the mountains of Europe where it is known as Mountain Argus, but in Europe it has black underside spotting so resembles the typical form found in Northern England, like this: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/9086710695/in/photolist A single recessive gene apparently produces the full white spotted form and is dominant in all Scottish colonies of this butterfly, but occurs in just a handful of sites in England. Its scientific name is Aricia artaxerxes. Aricia was an ancient town near Rome where there was a temple to the goddess Diana. Artaxerxes was a Persian king mentioned in the Bible who was the son of Xerxes, also a Persian King.