Sunday, June 20, 2010

Help on identification - butterfly and white stuff on alders


Butterfly, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Alder, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

I'm rather bad at recognizing species and natural phenomena. Here are two examples of my ignorance, a beautiful little butterfly, 2-3 cm in length, and some white stuff which is appearing on the branches of alders. Help very much appreciated.

1 comment:

Juha Haataja said...

Well, the first was easy enough: Chiasmia clathrata, a common butterfly in Finland. (Though not included in all Finnish butterfly guides.)