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Hi, Cristian!!! :hi:

I see you are including Moths too in your thread, how interesting!!! I'm useless with Moths, now I have a book of the Spanish Moths but I'm unable to ID most of them, just they look all the same to me! :-C

Hope you finally manage to snap one of those Whites, I'd love to know what they are! ;)

Cheers! B :)
 
April 22nd.

It was a great day. Despite the strong wind, I managed to take pics with three Whites. I suppose all are Green-veined Whites, but I need your help Marian! Just when I had decided to leave the meadow a small beauty landed on a flower, near my last White - a Small Yellow Underwing (see the pic attached). On the way to home, I found another new butterfly species for this season - a Red Admiral.
No problem with the moth IDs, Marian - we have a lot of experts here on birdforum.;)
 

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Hi again, Cristian!!! :hi:

I've checked your Whites, pics 1 and 4 are Green-veined Whites for me (specially in 4, there is no possibe doubt whatever, ;)).

I'm not so sure about pics 2 and 3, specially number 3 I'd go for Small White, but I'm not sure without a view of the underwing (Whites are much easier to ID by the underwing but I understand not always they cooperate for that kind of view).

In Romania there are other Whites we don't have, but I don't know if they are common and easy to find. Maybe yours is something else and not Small White! :h?:
 
Thank you for comments, Marian. By the way, I forgot to write about another species seen yesterday (I have an excuse - I don't have pictures with this one). I was very surprised to see an Old World Swallowtail! I suppose is relative early for this species. Also this isn't a very common species here. Scarce Swallowtail is more common...
 
During the Easter Hollyday I was in a hilly area in Transylvania (200 kilometers from Bucharest). I saw a lot of butterflies there: Peacock, Wood White (http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=198549), Green-veined White, Short-tailed Blue (http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=198525), Map, Old World Swallowtail (http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/364107/ppuser/54311), Duke of Burgundy, Brimstone, Orange Tip (no photo!), Dingy Skipper (http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=198551), another Skipper (I'm not sure about the species - see the picture attached - maybe a Grizzled Skipper?), an unidentified large orange/brown butterfly (no photos - maybe a Fritillary of some kind?). Here are some pictures.
 

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WOW, Cristian, beautiful pictures, and how lucky of you... I've only seen Map Butterfly once in my life, and Duke of Burgundy never!!! o:) So imagine how green with envy I am!!! o:D

As for the Skipper, I don't know the Eastern species but yours reminds me of the Grizzled Skipper. Was it very small? The only one I've seen (that I'm certain it was the Grizzled Skipper) was a tiny thing, and the pattern was like yours.

I'm going to try to update my thread now too! ;)

Cheers! B :)
 
Balotesti (IF), near Bucharest - April 30th.
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/365334/ppuser/54311
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/365333/ppuser/54311
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/365327/ppuser/54311
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/365093/ppuser/54311
http://www.birdforum.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/365091/ppuser/54311
http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=198956
Butterflies: Map, Orange Tip, Scarce Swallowtail, Old World Swallowtail, Holly Blue, Grizzled Skipper, Peacock, Comma, Green-veined White, an unindentified Skipper (I will start a new thread to solve this problem...).
Moths: Common Heath, Burnet Companion, Thyris fenestrella.

P.S. The second Skipper seems to be a worn Dingy.
 
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Cristian Mihai said:
You'll have to visit Romania. Both Map and Duke of Burgundy are relative common species here.
Click to expand...

If I could I'd take the first plane leaving for your country right now!!! o:D

And that Lunar Thorn is an utter beauty, wow, I didn't know it!!! o:)

I'll keep coming here regularly to check how you are doing with your Butterflies sightings! o:) Cheers, Cristian! B :)
 
Friday (May 6th) afternoon I visited a marsh area near Bucharest. I saw only a very few butterflies/moths (as a matter of fact I saw 3 or 4 moths species). I identified two of them (thank you again, Harri): Sitochroa verticalis and Euclidea glyphica.
 

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May 11th - a visit in the same area as on May 6th. Again, a very few moths (only 2 species) and no butterflies (we had some really cold days for May in the last week). For the first time this season: The Four-spotted moth.
 

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o:) Cristian, that Four-spotted Moth looks very close to one I photographed long time ago and I never even tried to know what it was... I must check the pics, I have the feeling you've IDed a Moth for me! ;)

And loads of congrats on the Green-underside Blue, here they have appeared about a week ago but for the moment I only spotted one (I don't see many in the season though)...
 
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