Images Dated 6th December 2010

Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus

Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus, mother and calflargest living animal, length 27m, weight 150 t, blue-grey skin, baleen plates filter feeder
For personal display use only and not for reproduction

© Ecoscene/Phillip Colla

Baleen, Behaviour, Calf, Cetacea, Cetacean, Ecoscene, Environment, Environmental Issues, Mammal, Marine, Social, Whale, Young

Southern Festoon, Zerynthia polyxena

Southern Festoon (Zerynthia polyxena) - in flight, high speed photographic technique, Europe wing Order Lepidoptera, Family Papilionidae, european, found in hot dry grassy places, Mediterranean species that can be found in small pockets as far north as Slovakia, colourful pattern

Animal, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Critter, Ecoscene, Environment Flight, Flight, Fly Insect, Flying, Flying Insect, Invertebrate, Jointed Leg, Minibeast, Motion, Movement, Open, Wing, Wings

Black Veined White butterfly, Aperia crataegi

Black Veined White butterfly (Aperia crataegi) - in flight flying over daisy flowers high speed photographic technique
Order Lepidoptera, Family Pieridae, rare migrant to UK, European species Europe main food source hawthorns and blackthorns, hedgerows

Animal, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Critter, Ecoscene, Environment, Family Pieridae, Hedgerows Invertebrate, Jointed Leg, Main Food Source Hawthorns And Blackthorns, Minibeast, Order Lepidoptera, Rare Migrant To Uk