Friday, May 20, 2011

Pupation!




Photographed this evening (Fri 20th May) in a garden in the Strong country (Heslop's phrase) - Looks male to me... Even if he spends 3 weeks as a pupa he's going to emerge in mid June...

Meanwhile the others are not far behind -


These guys are well synchronised with their wild Wiltshire cousins...

The race is on to smash the all-time record for the earliest UK Purple Emperor, only a foul June can stop us...

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