Brown Ringlet butterfly basking in the summer sunshine resting on a blade of grass

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Mature Ringlet ringlet butterfly resting alone in its habitat of rough grassland with wings apart showing the pattern on the topside of its wings

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Size: 5250px × 3500px
Location: dis-used railway embankment Northamptonshire
Photo credit: © JOY WALKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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