Tortoiseshell Butterfly

You could be right Karen...everything about it is flawless...:>)

Beautiful shot k....

Such an amazing amount of colour in these, beautiful creature, not many tortoishells in the garden here, lots of peacocks and other butterflies but only seen a couple of these. Beautiful photo. :O)))))

Thank you all. We seem to get quite a few of these, which is nice because they are my favourite of the ones we get.

lovely photo! what is it perching on? it might be the plant that it hatched on, so knowing what it is might help to bring some my way ...

It's on the seed pods of malva moschata Fran...the musk mallow.

thanks!

You have captured some amazing detail there Karen. The butterflies have been lovely this summer :o)

We haven't had that many here. I think it is because of the plant desert either side of my garden!

it takes time for word to get around ... but once one has found your garden, it'll come back, and maybe that will be inherited

yes, we do have a few tortoiseshells Fran...love them. Sadly not recently though as it's been very cloudy and damp here.