Butterflies

This butterfly is expanding its wings.

This butterfly is expanding its wings.

Only about 10 minutes after emerging from its pupa, this butterfly's wings are now almost fully expanded.

A close up of my home reared Camberwell Beauty, showing what a bristly butterfly this species is!

Recently hatched from its pupa, I reared this butterfly at home from an egg. This shot shows the wings black, the light not catching them in the right way to show the blue sheen.

Recently hatched from its pupa, I reared this butterfly at home from an egg. I like the blue sheen on the black wings as the light hits them from this angle.

Recently hatched from its pupa, I reared this butterfly at home from an egg.

Photographed on a Ragwort plant in Middleton on the Essex/Suffolk border in England.

Photographed in Middleton on the Essex/Suffolk border in England.