Painted Lady.

Lovely pic ~ Well done :o)

Good closeup. I have just got them coming into the garden. At work there must be 40 of them on one shrub!

Lovely detail............

Thanks everyone, i must admit i was surprised when it stayed there sunning itself whilst i loomed over it !!!!!

sometimes think they must get hypnotised by the sun Louise !

LOL
Whilst i was there i could see the fur on its body blowing in the breeze, it was lovely !

In paper the other day was reading we may have biggest hatchings of Painted Ladies for years ! Apparently thousands came over in May and as each could lay up to 300 eggs,by August could be billion in UK.Wont that be something !

Certainly would :))

Super...Louise! Aren't they lovely? The one in my garden is still fluttering around, only today Ted caught it tearing its underwings, up she got though and back on the Buddleia!

Amazing Janey.

We are seeing a few more now, which is encouraging...

I took photos of them in the garden this afternoon! My Agastache seems to be a butterfly magnet.

Lovely and aren't they good to see.

lovely picture, how close were you?

I've got some "butterfly-friendly" and "bee-friendly" plant seeds, I'll have to get moving on them; hope they'll take in planters, as I've no actual ground to put them in.

Thanks Fran, i was probably within 12" of it
:-)

wpw. that's reallly close. *s* it must have been able to detect your saintly aura and knew you were no danger to it

How right you are, lol, !!!! ;-)