For the first time this year the air is full of butterflies. One can see why the buddleia is called the butterfly bush. There was even a solitary painted lady on the bush amongst the dozens of red admirals, peacocks and tortoiseshells. Below are two pictures of a female wall brown and friend. Wall browns are usually very skittish and hard to photograph but the weather has been so wet they are probably desperate to refuel.
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So wonderful when I tune in here and actually see a plant we have on Long Island!! Even have these same butterfly bushes in the garden!
ReplyDeletethere's a but of Cornwall here after all!
Tara
A bit of Cornwall...darn Ipad auto spellcheck!!
ReplyDeletebut(t) of Cornwall seems very appropriate just now as it continues to rain!
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