Thursday 30 September 2010

Small Tortoiseshell


There's been hardly any of these beauties around where I live this year; this picture was taken a couple of years ago. The small tortoiseshell is one of the commonest butterflies in the UK so I expect they'll be back in numbers sometime. 

2 comments:

  1. What a magnificent butterfly - the colors and the details!

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  2. Gosh, that is beautiful! Not sure I have seen any over here.

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