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How did they get this Brimstone to open its wings ? Is it an ex-Brimstone ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... tion=Popup

Charles

I saw that too and asked myself the same question. They never open there wings, well not when I have seen them anyway. Only once did I see one open its wings like that, but it got trapped in a window and it was rescured.

This looks very very dodgy to me. Let's hope whoever took the photo simply "stunned" the butterfly somehow, before it flew away.

Cheers,

- Pete

The whole butterfly, including the body, seems so close to the leaf it is on that I can't believe it's standing on legs. Sometimes pictures can be misleading, and real life caught in a moment can look awkward, but it does look very much like a dead butterfly to me.

Guy

Photoshop rules, eh? (Does look like a "pinned" specimen tho')
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Just remembered I got a pic of a Speckled Wood basking early in the morning that looks as though it is pinned!