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Who is this little beauty?

NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
in Wildlife gardening
Sorry I couldn’t get a photo with wings open:


Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.

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  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    I was slightly confused until i realised you are in Spain! It's a butterfly with the latin name Charaxes jasius, colloquially known as a Two-tailed pasha or a foxy emperer.

  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Definitely the one, thank you ForTheBees. First time sighting but we do have lots of wild arbutus unedo in the surrounding hills and a single one in my garden, so given this is her tree of choice hopefully she is breeding. When I looked it up they were for sale on a Devon butterflies site, which I found quite shocking.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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