Speckled Wood

Posted by
Doug (Burnham-on-Sea, United Kingdom) on 12 March 2023 in Animal & Insect and Portfolio.

The speckled wood is common in southern Britain, Ireland and a small part of Scotland, also many areas in Europe. Seen between March and October, but individual speckled wood butterflies only live for around a week. Their preferred nectar is aphid honeydew on ash, oak and birch trees but will feed on other flower nectar when honeydew is scarce.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III 1/125 second F/10.0 ISO 800 100 mm

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Comments (9)

ursulakatariina from Turku, Finland

So beautiful!

12 Mar 2023 5:07am

Hiro from Kyoto, Japan

nice capture

12 Mar 2023 8:30am

Daniel from Perpignan, France

Superbe papillon !

12 Mar 2023 9:38am

Devi from Chennai, India

Beautiful capture !
How sad that they live only for a week.

12 Mar 2023 10:32am

Ruthiebear from Titusville, NJ, United States

Second one of these I have seen on a blog today. Lovely details

12 Mar 2023 12:41pm

Claudiel from belgium, Belgium

I show the same today. Soon we will see them again

12 Mar 2023 3:03pm

Willem from Noord-Scharwoude, Netherlands

A beautiful close-up.

12 Mar 2023 5:22pm

Mhelene from Villiers-sur-Marne, France

Beautiful capture .

12 Mar 2023 5:30pm

Elaine Hancock from Olney, United States

This is gorgeous Doug! A superb close up of this beautiful butterfly! It is sort of sad that they spend their life as a caterpillar and then become this beautiful creature that only lives for a week. Gorgeous detail and color! 5*

12 Mar 2023 8:55pm