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Drunk Butterfly?
Jul. 21st, 2010 05:25 pmI wandered to the end of my garden this morning to pick up my garden waste burner to burn some magazines, envelopes and other paper stuff that the council won't recycle and saw this on a Bramble flower near the bin.
I think it is a Grayling which is reasonably common in my area as it likes woodland(we've got masses), heathland(miles of it) stonewalls(enough to circle the coast of Britain) and bare earth(my next door neighbours garden but he is working on it). Graylings normally rest with wings closed in the upright position. This one stayed where it was, like this while I moved the burner, walked back into the house found, my camera and walked back out to it, that took about 3-4 minutes. I think Bramble nectar is intoxicating to butterflies and they loose all control of their wings for a while as it is gone now so it was able to fly but perhaps in a drunken straight line and not the zig zag of a sober butterfly.%D.
I think it is a Grayling which is reasonably common in my area as it likes woodland(we've got masses), heathland(miles of it) stonewalls(enough to circle the coast of Britain) and bare earth(my next door neighbours garden but he is working on it). Graylings normally rest with wings closed in the upright position. This one stayed where it was, like this while I moved the burner, walked back into the house found, my camera and walked back out to it, that took about 3-4 minutes. I think Bramble nectar is intoxicating to butterflies and they loose all control of their wings for a while as it is gone now so it was able to fly but perhaps in a drunken straight line and not the zig zag of a sober butterfly.%D.
