Thank you, that was my first thought too. It just looks so different from a healthy one that I started to wonder.

Can anyone identify this please? Its wings were quite badly damaged as we had just rescued it from a spider's web. Thanks.

Really interesting information and great photos.

So am I right in assuming that the top one here is male and the bottom one female, because of the different body shape?

Hello, I'm new here so I just thought I'd say a quick hi. It's looks a great site. I really got into photographing butterflies last summer. Here's a little collage of some which were all spotted in my garden last year.

Brilliant photos all of you. Nice to see some we don't get at all round here. Also brilliant photos of the Orange tip Nomad. Obviously they do land then, just not in our garden, ever!!

Thanks for the welcome Mike.

What fabulous photographs everyone. My very favourite resident butterfly, we were lucky to have numerous visitors to our garden here in Wales last year. None spotted yet so far this year though.

So far all I have seen this month are Peacock, Orange Tip and Speckled Wood. All in my garden here in Wales.

A couple of Speckled Woods:

Fabulous photographs everyone, and such an amazing array of species, so many more than we have round here. I particularly love the Orange Tip photograph. Do you find they land much? I have never had one land long enough to photograph, seems an impossible task!

What an amazing photograph.