Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) on pink Verbena bonariensis flowers in my garden. This underwing shot serves as a reminder of the beautiful colours of this butterfly, even when its wings are not open.
Red Admiral butterflies seem to have had a brilliant year locally here in Shropshire, UK. Although I saw very few in the early part of the year they have certainly made up for it in the latter part of the summer. I have counted as many as 5 in our small garden at one time which is far more than I’ve seen here before.

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Silver and Gold (well copper actually) This beautiful but somewhat battered Small Copper butterfly (Lycaena phlaeas) stood out wonderfully on the surrounding silver foliage. The background silver plant is a variety of Cotton Lavender, probably Santolina Chamaecyparissus, I haven’t been able to ID the seed heads in the foreground, yet !

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Small Tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais urticae) in the garden. Normally see lots of Small Tortoiseshell in our garden but have only seen a handful this year, perhaps not such a good year for them.

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As the butterfly season comes to a close I’m just checking and clearing my spare SD cards. Thought this Gatekeeper shot was worth saving.

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Green Veined White butterfly with purple Verbena

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