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Image Taken on 23 Aug 2016
at 13:42 Image of day on 11 Oct 2016
Atypically choosing this long flowering yellow Buddleia while the white variety
is still in flower, a Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly glows even against the orangey
flowers.
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Ref: 20161011_e65_20160823_1342_031 tortoiseshell butterfly on yellow buddleia(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 10 May 2019
at 15:59 Image of day on 11 Jun 2019
This Tortoiseshell Butterfly has lost some of it's scales, but has mostly
avoided the birds. After stoking up on this Dandelion it will continue the
search for a mate.
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Ref: 20190611_df5_20190510_1559_096 tortoiseshell butterfly overwintered and faded feeding on dandelion (crop)(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 21 Apr 2015
at 12:13 Image of day on 09 Jun 2015
An unusually tidy Tortoiseshell butterfly, for an over-wintered
individual, on a piece of rotting wood. The wings are at about a
right angle to one another so look foreshortened in this top
view. We have been surprised by how much dead wood we get from
such a young wood - several trees have died for no easily
determined reason (and others from known 'plagues') though most
are fine. Unless there is risk to creatures, fences, ponds or
adjacent plants we tend to leave them as they become 'insect
cafes' for many species. If we have to cut them we add them to
wood-piles all over the site for the same purpose.
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Ref: 20150609_df3_20150421_1213_232 tortoiseshell butterfly perched on dead wood with wings at about 45 degrees(r+mb id@768).jpg
Image Taken on 05 Sep 2021
at 11:03 Image of day on 17 Oct 2021
This pic of 5 white butterflies crowded on to a single stem of still flowering Blackberry
perhaps captures the delicacy a bit better.
 (of 7) butterflies clustered on single blackberry stem(r+mb id@768).jpg)
Ref: 20211017_df3_20210905_1103_114 5 white (small and large) (of 7) butterflies clustered on single blackberry stem(r+mb id@768).jpg
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