Saturday, 20 July 2019

Cyprus - 19th - 25th June 2019 Part 1

This visit was primarily for Dragonflies and the summer Butterflies.

Dragonflies were relatively easy, find water, of which after this years winter rains, there is a a lot about, but also some heavy flooding changing habitat, you'll find Dragonflies, but summer Butterflies in Cyprus away from those of the lowland coastal areas, are difficult, found in limited suitable habitat and never in large numbers even when in the right areas. This makes them far more difficult and resulted in us not seeing Small Bath White, Lattice Brown, Cardinal, Two-tailed Pasha or Nettle-tree Butterfly.

This is a photograph run through of the week.

19th - day 1
Bishop Pool


Violet Dropwing, male and female


Zakaki Marsh

Southern Skimmer

Epaulet Skimmer 

Broad Scarlet, male and female


 Violet Dropwing, male and female


Blue-tailed Damselfly 

 Slender Skimmer

Larnaca Salt Lake

Bath White 

Painted Lady

  Mallow Skipper 

 Small White

 Lang's Short-tailed Blue

Small Desert Blue

Little Tiger Blue


Slender Skimmer

Orkolini Lake

Blue-tailed Damselfly

 Red-veined Darter

 Broad Scarlet

 Black Pennant - famale (our only one for the week)

Southern Skimmer, male and female



Slender Skimmer

Dark Grass Blue


Mallow Skipper

Ora Dam

Black-tailed Skimmer


Common Darter

 Red-veined Dropwing

 Violet Dropwing

 Eastern Willow Spreadwing


20th - day 2
Near Mandria 


Common Darter

 Common Blue




 Paphos Blue

Clouded Yellow


 Painted Lady

Large White

Platres


Eastern Rock Grayling

Small Copper

Large White

Cyprus Grayling

Clouded Yellow

Common Blue

Eastern Willow Speadwing

Painted Lady




Common Darter

Trooditisea

Common Darter

Hermit

 Cyprus Meadow Brown

Oriental Meadow Brown

Holly Blue

Gatekeeper

Kokkini

Orinetal Meadow Brown 

 Long-tailed Blue

Prodromos

 Painted Lady

 Small Copper

Clouded Yellow 

Prodromos Dam

Black-tailed Skimmer 

Red-veined Dropwing

21st - day 3
Troodos

Bath White

White-banded Graying

Clouded Yellow

Trooditisea

 Holly Blue

Large White

 Southern White Admiral


 Oriental Meadow Brown


 Small Copper

 Small White

Clouded Yellow

Large Wall Brown (very tatty)

Common Darter

Kokkini

 Long-tailed Blue

 Wall Brown

 Painted Lady

Platres

 Oriental Meadow Brown

 Mallow Skipper

22nd - day 4
Agia Varvara

 Blue-tailed Damselfly

Small Skimmer

Keeled Skimmer

 Small Skimmer

Epaulet Skimmer

Epaulet Skimmer

Broad Scarlet


Indigo Dropwing


Red-veined Dropwing

Swallowtail


Small White

 Painted Lady

Bath White


Lesser Fiery Copper


Common Blue

Long-tailed Blue

Ant Lion (Palpares libelluloides)

Prastio

Slender Skimmer

Oblisque

Banded Demoiselle

 Small Skimmer

 Epaulet Skimmer

 Indigo Dropwing

 Blue-tailed Damselfly

Small Princetail

Red-veined Darter

Mallow Skipper

Kadsi



Small Princetail