If you've been following my blog this year, you'll know my only trip outside of Belgium, other than city trips to Berlin and Cologne, was a very short break in Modane looking for butterflies. Despite only having two full days there, I ended up identifying 61 species, 26 of which were new for me. Of those, I managed to get pictures of 24, which is the perfect number for an alpine butterfly advent calendar, featuring each of the new species I photographed.
Starting with the skippers, therefore, which are terribly difficult to identify, so much so that shots of both the upper- and underside are really required to be able to id them confidently. This is the one and only Marbled Skipper/Carcharodus levatharae I saw.
