Macro close up of a small tortoiseshell butterfly on budlea flowers.

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The small tortoiseshell is a medium-sized butterfly that is mainly reddish orange, with black and yellow markings on the forewings as well as a ring of blue spots around the edge of the wings. As a caterpillar, It feeds on common nettles then loves budlea flowers.

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: north dorset uk
Photo credit: © ALAN MORGAN PHOTOGRAPHY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: aglais, amp462, budlea, butterflies, butterfly, close, denmark, eye, feeding, flowers, gathering, head, hibernate, hibernation, macro, national, nectar, nymphalid, nymphalidae, proboscis, shot, tortoishell, urticae