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Butterflies Page 25

Image Taken on 14 Apr 2006 at 15:03 Image of day on 20 Apr 2006

For us Spring 'sprung' on 14 April 2006 - warm and sunny, blossom and insects everywhere. Lets start with this peacock butterfly sunning itself on a daffodil.

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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2008 at 13:42 Image of day on 08 Sep 2008

Apparently our plethora of peacock butterflies is not typical this year. This one was basking on a mat of thistle seed down on the ground.

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Image of day on 12 Aug 2005

A Peacock Butterfly yet to encounter bramble thorns, bird pecks and other ravages of life.

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Image Taken on 01 Apr 2012 at 16:15 Image of day on 02 May 2012

This Peacock butterfly will have overwintered and will hope to pair up with another hibernator to lay this years eggs.

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Image Taken on 22 Jul 2020 at 16:13 Image of day on 26 Aug 2020

A Peacock Butterfly spreads their wings in the soft sunshine.

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Image Taken on 06 Apr 2023 at 13:26 Image of day on 17 May 2023

A Peacock Butterfly lands on a patch of bare mud. Butterflies need water and minerals, and find it where they may.

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Image Taken on 03 Aug 2024 at 11:01 Image of day on 20 Sep 2024

A pristine Peacock Butterfly perched on a spread of Oxford Ragwort flowers.

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Image Taken on 18 Apr 2007 at 17:46 Image of day on 07 May 2007

The plant 'Self-Heal' has gone rampant this year. The Peacock Butterfly (which will have hibernated away the winter) has a welcome feed.

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Image Taken on 23 Jul 2006 at 17:35 Image of day on 06 Aug 2006

Peacock butterflies are very common but beautiful nonetheless.

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Image Taken on 22 Jul 2006 at 18:09 Image of day on 31 Jul 2006

Teasels are all over the place and attract all sort of nectar feeders.

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Image Taken on 12 Jul 2020 at 12:18 Image of day on 18 Aug 2020

A Peacock Butterfly enjoying a Thistle flower

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Image Taken on 02 Jul 2025 at 17:43 Image of day on 28 Aug 2025

In early evening light this Peacock Butterfly catches the remaining warmth and casts an interesting shadow on the concrete surface of the garage.

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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2022 at 13:00 Image of day on 17 May 2022

Butterflies tend to look for somewhere already warm to bask. This means they make for the ugliest human surfaces that they can find!

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Image Taken on 29 Jul 2023 at 10:04 Image of day on 21 Sep 2023

A Peacock Butterfly perched on a ground-level thistle leaf. When you are small enough, all those sharp spines become just a bit of 'texture'.

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Image Taken on 26 Jul 2024 at 15:09 Image of day on 09 Sep 2024

A Peacock Butterfly perched on a frond of Hop Sedge - the plant that dominates the Duck Pond.

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Image Taken on 14 Apr 2016 at 13:19 Image of day on 22 May 2016

A peacock Butterfly contrasting itself with the brilliant yellow of a cultivated Daffodil. The butterfly is in good condition considering that it will have spent the winter somewhere safe while waiting for the Spring!

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Image Taken on 18 Jul 2022 at 08:04 Image of day on 03 Sep 2022

A more 'classical' view of the Peacock Butterfly.

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Image Taken on 13 Aug 2017 at 14:38 Image of day on 01 Oct 2017

A Peacock Butterfly sunning itself on the clover.

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Image Taken on 22 Jul 2014 at 17:41 Image of day on 27 Sep 2014

Here on a Buddleia this Peacock Butterfly has it's proboscis clearly down the centre of one of the florets. The Proboscis is a figure of 8 cross-section which stops it getting in a tangle when it rolls it up.

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Image Taken on 30 Jul 2015 at 17:53 Image of day on 25 Sep 2015

This Peacock Butterfly has it's proboscis clearly inside the solitary remaining flower at the top of this teasel head.

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