Butterflies: Meadow Brown

The meadow brown (Maniola jurtina), bruin zandoogje in Dutch, is common in The Netherlands. Its range includes Europe, Russia, Asia Minor, Iraq, Iran, and North Africa; no luck in the colonies.

It is one of the few species where the male is less colourful than the female, the latter having orange areas on the upper forewings.

They lay their eggs on different species of grass; something to think about the next time you mow your lawn. They are not very picky when it comes to flowers they visit for food, though.

On blackberry flowers:

^{Olympus XZ-1, 112mm, ISO100, f8, 1/400s}

On thistles:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/500s}

I hope the missus will forgive me for not remembering what these flowers are called, as she has pointed them out to me several times:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/125s}

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/320s}

This bugle vine flower posed some problems, and it eventually gave up:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 200mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/400s}

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/125s}

As seen on marjoram, or something closely related to that:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f8, 1/100s}

Eying me suspiciously from an oak tree:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 300mm, ISO200, f5.6, 1/250s}

Making more:

^{Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f8, 1/160s}

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