Marsh fritillary butterfly (Euphydryas aurinia) egg cluster laid on the underside of a Devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) leaf, the larval food

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Marsh fritillary butterfly (Euphydryas aurinia) egg cluster laid on the underside of a Devil's bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) leaf, the larval food plant, in a chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, June.

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Size: 4307px × 3231px
Location: Box, Wiltshire, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aurinia, bit, british, brood, butterflies, butterfly, caprifoliaceae, cluster, devils, egg, eggs, england, euphydryas, europe, fritillary, grassland, leaves, marsh, mass, meadow, nymphalidae, orange, plants, pratensis, reproduction, scabious, succisa, summer