"This is a large skipper butterfly [i]Ochlodes sylvanus[/i] feeding on the purple flowers of black knapweed [i]Centaurea nigra[/i]. Another name for knapweed is 'hardheads', and there is one of the 'hardhead' seed cases in view. Close u"
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"Elsewhere, I have a photo of this butterfly feeding on rotting fruit. Here is a more usual sight, with the comma feeding from the flower of a creeping thistle [i]Cirsium arvense[/i].
