Brimstone

A brimstone, wings folded and upside down feeds on a flower of wood avens.  This is a common butterfly of the Spring, unusually overwintering as an adult from the second generation of butterflies that fly in the Autumn of the year before.  This one is demonstrating the ability this insect has, with its bright brimstone wings, to disappear suddenly when it settles and closes its wings. The greenish undersides are cryptically leaf-like.

Now that the we are explicitly allowed to take more than one form of exercise a day, and to travel further from home, I have been venturing beyond the radius of a mile or so that constrained my walks for two months. I went for a wander around Gait Barrows, in search of a different butterfly which proved too flighty on a warm morning for a photograph. So a brimstone it is, which I don't think I have ever blipped before.

Gus had his walk before this, a quick up and down of the Knott. Mercifully, his tummy troubles seem to be settled.

And after yesterday's 5/10 year blip of the pied fox, a thank you to everyone who left such kind comments, stars and hearts, including some who came out of blip retirement to say a few words. It's what makes this so worthwhile, maybe I shall carry on a bit longer.  I shall try to get round and thank everyone individually, though with a busy day on the allotment ahead, that may take some time.