Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Mauve flowers, orange butterfies

I was out emptying the dog this morning and it seemed to me that there are a lot of mauve flowers and orange butterflies about at the moment. There was also a dragonfly but that was more powder blue - sorry about that :), oh, and one of the butterflies is more brown than orange.














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  1. Floker22 November 2016 at 05:10

    The last one - my favourite since childhood (don't know its name) - visited me few weeks ago. (Pic follows)

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  2. Empty The Dog22 November 2016 at 10:12

    In English it is a Peacock butterfly because of the similarity between its eyespots and a peacocks tail eyespots. The scientific name is Aglais io and in German it is Tagpfauenauge. They can be seen in winter on a warm sunny day as they are dormant (not hibernating) and will fly if the temperature is high enough.

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