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A tiny silver-studded blue. We are very lucky to have some colonies of these delightful butterflies in the New Forest as this butterfly is almost totally absent from central and northern England, Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
119 pictures in 2019 (47) fragile
I'm currently doing a six week survey for Butterfly Conservation in the Ashdown Forest. This involves monitoring the same patch on a 6km loop once a week to see how many, if any silver studded blue butterflies there are. Last year was good but I'm into week three now and have seen just two males. They were very fresh (they live as adults only 4 to 5 days) and are very beautiful. I'm hoping that as the weather warms up there will be more.
They were once common but in the last century over four fifths of their numbers disappeared and they are now confined to a few pockets in the South of England. They have a fascinating life cycle in which the caterpillars are taken into ants nests for protection and the chrysalises are guarded and tended, with the ants in attendance until the adult emerges and is able to fly off. The ant gets sugary secretions from the caterpillars as a reward. Without the ants, there is no silver studded blue. Other blues also have this life cycle.
Here are pictures of the two I saw on Sunday.
As usual, there's a bit more detail viewed large.
3 COLORI - APPARTAMENTO ICONOCLASTA
ristrutturazione
Progetto: Studioata, 2004
Intervento: ristrutturazione
Area: 70 mq
L’obiettivo principale dell’intervento, per espresso desiderio della committenza, è stato quello di rendere l'appartamento, di circa 70 mq. e situato al quarto piano di uno stabile d'epoca, del tutto impermeabile agli stimoli provenienti dall'esterno.
L’ambiente è quindi volutamente disadorno, semplice, quasi “iconoclasta”; la luce ovattata e accogliente favorisce la concentrazione e rende rilassante l'atmosfera. Lo spazio è suddiviso fra una zona giorno, con cucina aperta a bancone, e una zona notte con due camere passanti separate dal volume del bagno. Questo, se pur di minime dimensioni, ospita una cabina - doccia assai spaziosa, con doccione a soffitto, e riceve luce da una finestra, attraverso la quale si scorgono il cielo ed i tetti circostanti . Trova posto nel bagno anche la lavatrice, accessibile dal vano doccia, nascosta da una porta a scomparsa
Il muro di spina è ispessito dall'armadio che si può attraversare passando nei due tunnel rivestiti in legno.
Il progetto utilizza di fatto, come unica forma espressiva, tre materiali e tre colori: il legno chiaro, l'intonaco verniciato di bianco e la resina grigia del pavimento. Nessun'altra distrazione.
Il bagno, se pur di dimensioni assolutamente minime offre una cabina doccia di grosse dimensioni con doccione a soffitto e una finestra, apribile in estate, attraverso la quale è possibile vedere i tetti e il cielo.
Trova posto nel bagno anche la lavatrice, accessibile dal vano doccia, nascosta da una porta a scomparsa.
3 COLORS
An iconoclastic apartment
Project: Studioata, 2004
Type: renovation
Area: 70 square metres
The renovation of this apartment – roughly 70 square metres in an ancient building – aimed to achieve insulation from outside distractions. The design is unadorned, plain and iconoclastic; the light is soft and cosy; the atmosphere is relaxing and favours concentration. Space is divided between the daytime area (an open kitchen with a bar table) and the night-time area composed of two communicating bedrooms, separated by the volume of the bathroom. The wall dividing these areas is thickened by the wardrobe leaning to it, and the bedrooms are accessed through two wood paneled tunnels.
The project resorts to very limited expressive forms - only three materials and three colors: the light brown of the wood, the white plaster of the walls, and the gray resin of the floor. No distractions.
The race horse immortalised is Persimmon. The buldings are constructed in brick and carstone, a local dark sandstone.
Today is a rare sunny spring day and it is wonderful chance of shooting butterfly in the field. This special butterfly names Studded Sergeant is an endemic sun-species in Taiwan and my first time of meeting it. What a lucky day!
好久沒有出機追蝶，今天臺北豔陽天，早春的蝴蝶也都出來了，這隻「白圈帶蛺蝶」是台灣特有亞種，也是我的首拍，幸運的一天！
PS. 標題出自宋代，陳造的「早春十絕呈石湖」。
~福山村, 烏來, 新北市
Fushan Village, Wulai, Taiwan
- ISO 200, F5.6, 1/1000 sec, 100mm
- Canon 5D MarkIII with EF 100mm f/2.8 L macro lens
- Shot @ 11.14am
On the subject of Studio Ghibli they have a new film that just came out in Japan called Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (崖の上のポニョ. The theme song to that movie was everywhere and a few weeks later is still stuck in my head. When ever I am idle I start singing in my head Ponyo Ponyo Ponyo sakana no ko! " Because I know you want to suffer with me. Please feel free to click here. =D
Taken at Prees Heath, Whitchurch during their four or five day mating season. These beautiful insects are about the size of an adults thumb nail.
A pair of Silver-studded blues Female Left and Male on the Right taken at Prees Heath Common Reserve.
He looked over his kingdom as far as the eye could see. Owning everything east of the Grey Peaks and west of the Fathomless Forest, he was a god in the universe. Naive yet "mighty" ruler of the 5 Stud Kingdom. (Or so he saw himself)
***Scale photo in comments below***
We got distracted tonight lol... We promise we're finishing up other much larger MOCs :)
Thanks for hanging around during these few micro tangents!
Ellisons Pond, Ashdown Forest - another of the mating pair from just over a week ago. This time after a bit of pole dancing, they changed position on the perch, with the male at the top.
I photographed this male Silver-studded Blue at the RSPB South Stack reserve on Anglesey. We visited South Stack to look for Choughs after we had seen the Elegant Tern. This one is slightly unusual in that it lacks the silver studs that give rise to the name. Silver-studded Blues are commonest on southern heathlands around the New Forest and Thames Basin. Beyond that they are decidedly localised, though often common where they do occur. They are noticeably smaller than Common Blues, with a more leaden blue colouration, with a row of black studs around the hindwing margin. Its caterpillars feed on a variety of plants including gorse, heather and rock-rose, but they also have a relationship with black ants of the genus Lasius. Ants carry the young larvae into their nests where they tend and protect them, presumably for the sugary solutions they exude. But it is not known whether they actually feed on ant larvae (like Large Blues do), but at night the caterpillars emerge from the ants' nests to feed on vegetation. Female Silver-studded Blues selectively lay eggs on vegetation close to Black Ant nests.
The Silver-studded Blue has the scientific name Plebejus argus. Plebejus were basically the Plebs or common folk, as this was Linnaeus's "dumping ground" for all the small butterflies like blues and skippers. These were lower than the grand Swallowtails, Emperors and Admirals. And so to the name argus. In Greek mythology Zeus was in love with Io, so to indulge himself without arousing his wife Hera's suspicion, he turned her into a Heifer. Hera found out and placed her under the care of Argus, who had a hundred eyes. Zeus enlisted the help of Hermes who lulled Argus to sleep with his flute and then cut off Argus's head. Hera consoled herself by setting Argus's eyes into the tail of the peacock. So any butterfly that has numerous eyespots often has the name Argus, and elsewhere in the animal kingdom (eg Great Argus Pheasant).
I didn't manage to get it in sharp focus throughout but I liked the colour of the wings catching the late evening sun.
Here they all are, my micro scale Star Wars Fleet, 2021 class photo. All of the ships are as close to 1:250 scale as I could make them, some are a bit chunky or a stud too long or short, but overall they’re mostly strong builds that are hopefully recognisable. I’ve used common parts wherever possible and I’ve published instructions for everything on Rebrickable…
rebrickable.com/users/ron_mcphatty/mocs/
It’s been a much slower year than 2020, I finished my to-do list back in May, but I still have a few ideas to immortalise in Studio and I’m also going to try to some more interesting action shots next year. Until then, may the Force be with you!
I posted a male Silver-studded Blue recently and today it was in Explore. I'm not expecting as much attention for this duller female, but it is the first time I have managed a photograph of a female with wings open.
I remember my first encounter with Silver-studded Blues was in my early teens while visiting my Uncle in Surrey. He lived right next door to Whitmoor Common and I wandered onto the heathland there and saw thousands. But I had to consult my Observer's Book of Butterflies to work out which species it was. I identified them as Silver-studded Blues, but I wrongly thought the females were Brown Argus as I could not see any trace of blue on them. Female Silver-studded Blues from the northern populations tend to show more blue on the upperwings than ones from the south. The silver studs that give rise to the name, are inside the black spots around the edge of the underwing hindwing, and are present in both sexes. Here they are on a male I took some years ago: www.flickr.com/photos/timmelling/5824137718/in/photolist
The Silver-studded Blue has the scientific name Plebejus argus. Plebejus were basically the Plebs or common folk, as this was Linnaeus's "dumping ground" for all the small butterflies like blues and skippers. These were lower than the grand Swallowtails, Emperors and Admirals. And so to the name argus. In Greek mythology Zeus was in love with Io, so to indulge himself without arousing his wife Hera's suspicion, he turned her into a Heifer. Hera found out and placed her under the care of Argus, who had a hundred eyes. Zeus enlisted the help of Hermes who lulled Argus to sleep with his flute and then cut off Argus's head. Hera consoled herself by setting Argus's eyes into the tail of the peacock. So any butterfly that has numerous eyespots often has the name Argus, and elsewhere in the animal kingdom (eg Great Argus Pheasant).
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had this idea since October as well. i have tons of photo ideas from the October 2012 that I never did and I'm trying to go back and do them.
i think what kept me from doing this was the lack of studs.
AL-Awadi Studio
طبعا الصوره هذي بالمطبخ
صار استيديو بالمطبخ بعد ما طردوني من كل مكان اصور فيه بالبيت
فحبيت اقول حق الوالد و الوالده غدا وعشا ماكو ولا اقول مطبخ ماكو صار حقي
روحو شوفولكم مطبخ ثاني
مع تحيات
ابنكم الي يدور مكان يصور فيه هههههههه
شوفو صوره المبطبخ تحت
Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/11.0
Focal Length: 50 mm
ISO Speed: 100