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

Orange Tip Butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines

Orange Tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) - adult male in flight over crocus flowers, females lack the oragne tip
Order Lepidoptera, Family Pieridae, wings closed showing patter on underside of wing, antennae, compound eye, hairy body, spring, hedgerows, gardens, damp meadows and woodland margins, high speed photographic technique, flying