A comma, a predominantly orange butterfly, in the foreground and a peacock (mostly red with eye patterns on its wings) out-of-focus behind it. Both are inverted and feeding on the small blue flowers of grape hyacinth.

Comma and peacock butterflies on grape hyacinth at The Botanics today.

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One way to help save #ScotButterflies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is to fight the climate emergency! Here is a general list of organizations that I've put together. #SaveTheButterflies

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One way to help save #ScotButterflies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is to fight thee climate emergency! Here is a general list of organizations that I've put together. #SaveTheButterflies

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A northern brown argus (a small butterfly) sitting on a non-flowering head of knapweed on the left of the image with two out-of-focus flowering knapweed heads on the right.

It's fairly late for a northern brown argus, but that does mean it's not autumn yet. Spotted today in Holyrood Park.

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Small Tortoiseshell in Aberdeenshire this afternoon

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a small tortoiseshell sitting around what appears to be some barren wasteland, but we actually know it more affectionately as the garden...

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A white-letter hairstreak on the small yellow flowers of lady's bedstraw. The white "W" that gives its name is visible here (but not the clearest example). It also gives the scientific name Satyrium w-album.

This was a big surprise today, a white letter hairstreak appeared on the lady's bedstraw by the observatory building on Calton Hill.

@caltonhill.bsky.social, have a look high in your elms, they're likely there.

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A small skipper, a diminutive orange butterfly, sitting on the lavender-blue flowers of catmint (Nepeta 'Six Hills Giant').

A small skipper on catmint at The Botanics.

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A male large skipper on red valerian.

A large skipper made a brief appearance on Calton Hill yesterday. They can be found at Levenhall, but there are few records of them in the city. This one is early too. iRecorded.

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A side-on image of a male orange-tip butterfly. The underside of the lower wing is spotchy green on white, ideal for camouflage, but the upper wings are not fully folded in, showing a splash of the orange that gives the butterfly its common name. It is sitting on a cluster of pale pink flowers. I had to check the plant label for this one, it's Syringa x chinensis. The image is framed by out-of-focus green and pink achieved by taking the shot through a gap in the foliage.

An orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) on Chinese lilac (Syringa x chinensis) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh yesterday.

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A side view of a butterfly with its wings together so one underside is visible. The wing is brown with cream patches and the background has similar colours with some greens provided by moss on a rock. The grape hyacinth has a cluster of small blue urn-shaped flowers a little like a bunch of grapes.

A speckled wood on grape hyacinth at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh yesterday.

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A peacock butterfly sitting on top of a pale, almost white, daffodil. There are many other daffodils out-of-focus in the image. The trumpets of the daffodils are more yellow.

A peacock on Narcissus 'Salome' at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh today.

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A speckled wood sitting on the pale yellow flowers of a Corylopsis (I think Corylopsis sinensis, Chinese winter hazel).

My first speckled wood of the year, on Corylopsis at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. A holly blue was charging around the nearby hollies but not stopping for photos.

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A comma butterfly sitting on a spike of small, blue grape hyacinth flowers with other spikes of the flower out-of-focus in the background. The rest of the background is green from the foliage of the flowers.

This comma spent a lot of time on the path, gravel, branches and ivy leaves but gave me a brief photo op as it fed at the grape hyacinth (Muscari aucheri) in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh today.

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A small tortoiseshell sitting on a thin branch covered in small white flowers. The butterfly has some damage on the rear of its left wing.

A small tortoiseshell in Holyrood Park this afternoon.

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pearl-bordered fritillary
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A peacock butterfly sitting on the pink flowers of a rhododendron.

A peacock on Rhododendron dauricum 'Rosa' in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh today.

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A red admiral sitting with open wings on a cluster of small pink rhododendron flowers (it's Rhododendron dauricum 'Rosa'). The background is mostly pink, provided by out-of-focus flowers on the same bush.

I saw the red admiral at the same bush yesterday in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

Of course, I looked again today, but the sun didn't poke out until I was on my way home. I'll try again tomorrow...

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A red admiral with wings spread sitting on a small pink flower at the end of new growth on a rhododendron. The background is a fairly uniform pale brown with some patches of pink, provided by out-of-focus rocks behind and other rhododendron flowers.

A red admiral on Rhododendron dauricum 'Rosa' at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh yesterday (27th Feb).

It's always a thrill to spot the first butterfly of the year.

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A backlit red admiral with sun shining through its spread wings, sitting on the small, tightly clustered pink flowers of Rhododendron dauricum 'Rosa'.

My first butterfly of the year: a red admiral on Rhododendron dauricum 'Rosa' at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh today.

Yeah, I did my happy dance.

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#paintedlady #butterfly #scotland #ukbutterflies #scotbutterflies #nescotland

painted lady - the undergarments #paintedlady #butterfly #scotland #ukbutterflies #scotbutterflies #nescotland

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quite possibly the most beaten up Painted Lady I've ever seen #paintedlady #butterfly #scotland #ukbutterflies #scotbutterflies #nescotland

A backlit holly blue on a bramble leaf with gorse flowers in the background.

This holly blue is a #BlueBug for #BlueMonday.

I took this shot in April, but I'm already hunting for beasties. This January I've seen bees and hoverflies and a butterfly isn't impossible (a few species overwinter as adults).

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female common blue
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small heath
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meadow brown
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