Lemon butterfly by Junglegeorge
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Description
Brimstone - Lemon butterfly
Gonepteryx rhamni
Family: Pieridae
Flight Time: June-August and Spring after hibernation.
Size: 52-60mm
Altitude: 0-2500m
"Often the first Butterfly to be seen after the winter. Its bright yellow colour has given rise that it could have given rise to the word butterfly, i.e. derived from butter(-coloured) fly. Alternatively "u" was "you", anything else like a short u (uh) was oe with umlauts... The word butterfly said in old english would have been byout-erfly, e.g. beaut-er fly, beautiful fly. Make more sense?
In Europe there are two other species, the cleopatra, Gonepteryx cleopatra with its orange colouration and the Powdered brimstone, Gonepteryx farinosa with two colour wings."
Photo taken with Canon powershot A200.
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Comments (7)
Ladyhawk
ouuu!! just perfection!! a magical shot, thanks for the info ,love learing new things about nature bravo in every way!!!! (V)!! :0)
SNAKEY
Nice , krisp , sharp image and thanks for the details.:O))
Akinom
Those details are amazing! A wonderful shot... very crisp and clear! Bravo!
Enmos
WoW Beautiful capture !! The colors and detail are outstanding, compo looks great too !! Excellent work !! V
jcv2
Butterful capture, thanks for the explanation!
jimry
A superb capture of this Brimstone :)
Michelle A.
Lovely shot!