Two butterflies and a ladybird

[spiralsheep]

Large White butterflies, Pieris brassicae. The first is female, on burdock, and the second is male, on greater knapweed. Note the female's tongue bending down into the flower in the first image, and the male's unusual perching stance and EYES in the second.






Bonus ladybird hiding amongst umbellifer seeds.

Comments

[sixbeforelunch]

Wow, gorgeous pictures! Great way to start my day. :)

[spiralsheep]

Thank you. :-)

[slippy]

All the pictures are lovely, but I really like the one with the ladybird.

[spiralsheep]

Thank you. I like the ladybird's head-in-the-sand attitude to hiding, heh.

[slippy]

Yeah, it's like some kind of adorable natural version of Where's Wally.

[spiralsheep]

But with spots instead of stripes, heh. :-)

[blackmare]

Oh, lovely. The first and third ones particularly. <3 <3 <3

[spiralsheep]

Thank you. Yes, the first and third are better caps, but I included the second cos it's a relatively unusual view. :-)