This afternoon, I went to two sites where I saw wall butterflies in the spring.  Their second brood adults are supposed to emerge the first week in August.  Another blipper, Lainymac, blipped one from Dundee (30 miles north from me) on July 30th, so I thought my chances were good.

Not to be.  Despite seeing all three whites (large, small, green-veined), speckled woods, red admirals and meadow browns at various points on my route, there was absolutely no sign of my target species, the wall brown.


Instead, I offer you this Episyrphus balteatus, sometimes called the marmalade hoverfly, on lesser knapweed, aka hardheads, Centaurea nigra.