White Carpathians 2012: butterflies

Just some of the 51 species of butterfly that we managed to track down, despite not particularly fantastic weather conditions, during our time in the White Carpathians and around Lake Neusiedl back at the beginning of June.

Highlights included Mountain Alcon Blue, some nice Coppers (Large, Scarce and the lovely Purple-shot) and Heaths (Chestnut and Pearly), an amazing hillside scattered with freshly emerged Apollos posing for photos and a 'clean sweep' of Brenthis Fritillaries (Marbled, Lesser Marbled (flying out of shot below) and Twin-spot) all together in the same few meadows.