A day (29 June) on the Amberley Downs with Kat Dahl, and guest appearances by Fritillary Finder General Patrick Moore, Martin K and Mike Lowe, turned out to be a cracker. Although not all were present at the magical moments, we saw Queen of Spain Fritillary twice, several hours and significantly more than 0.5 km apart. It's unclear whether there were one or two individual butterflies present, as we never got close enough to photograph the first, but I suspect the latter scenario. The Queen we did photograph was definitely Patrick's individual from 28 June, recognised by a small chip on the inner left costa. Other species recorded included Small Skipper, Essex Skipper, Large Skipper, Large White, Small White, Green-veined White, Clouded Yellow, Brimstone, Speckled Wood, Small Heath, Ringlet, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White, Dark Green Fritillary, Red Admiral, Painted Lady, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma, Small Copper, Small Blue, Holly Blue, Brown Argus, Common Blue, Chalk Hill Blue and Brown Hairstreak (a male, and by far my earliest ever sighting of this species). By the end of the day (I stayed late, to bathe in the glory of this midsummer madness) I'd seen nearly 20 Humming-bird Hawk-moth. We also saw three Hornet Robberfly - again, ridiculously early - and Kat found a lovely Painted Lady caterpillar gorging on Viper's-bugloss.