small tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on a budlia

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A butterfly with considerable wing damage indicating that it hibernated over winter, feeding on a garden shrub

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Size: 4333px × 2756px
Location: Somerset, UK
Photo credit: © John Hubble / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aglais, butterfly, condition, damage, decline, feeding, flower, garden, hibernation, insect, nectar, poor, population, small, tortoiseshell, urticae, wing