There's a part of the walk around the Summer Leys Reserve is a small meadow known as 'Butterfly Meadow'. Here I saw a few butterflies and bees. This one is an Orange Tip Butterfly that was flying between flowers
Her posthumous books featured her "wild and fearless life," but she was also a trailblazing famous #Victorian#lepidopterist, published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variations, expert on tropical butterflies, discovering, documenting, breeding & gathering specimen in 60 countries, talented scientific illustrator, 🧵 #printmaking#womenInSTEM#histstm
Speaking of #butterflies, have a look at this guy! Not a mark or blemish anywhere this Tiger must be newly emerged, because it was kind of docile and clearly hasn’t seen any combat.
A couple other sightings today. Buckeyes I saw all along the trail. Saw a few unknown Whites and some Orangetips. #butterflies Usual stuff, but in a different locale.