Thanks, Felix; I didn't know that as I have not seen it reported elsewhere, but it does make some sense. The bush....
Today, no more than 3 HB seen on that bush in the Cemetery again, - all males - but the tatty one I saw yesterday is still there; none seen elsewhere.....
I have not seen females ovipositing on the bush (but I haven't really looked either) so I will do so for the first-brood females; I would expect the mature berries would not be used by the 2nd brood? I have only observed them ovipositing on their two acknowledged food-plants in the Cemetery - of which there is plenty - so far. Elsewhere I have seen first-brood Holly Blue egg-laying on Hairs Foot Clover (or similar, I wasn't sure) which was a bit of a surprise and I could find no references in the literature to this either.
Isn't this why we love butterflies; continually posing questions of our knowledge of them!
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(My physics teacher used to deal in distances in terms of a gnat's cock! Which, as he put it, is incredibly tiny and of little consequence, except to a female gnat.....
I expect he's been forced to go metric now
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