#CommaButterfly

Nature with SteveNatureWithSteve
2025-06-15

Another Butterfly from Friday’s visit to the meadows at Brandon Marsh: a Comma, who was active along the border between the meadow and adjacent woodland.

A Comma Butterfly perched on an Oak leaf, with wings fully open. He or she is facing towards the left side of the image; we see him or her from the side and at an angle – if there was a line drawn connecting the bottom left and the top right corners of the picture, the leading edges of the forewings would more or less follow part of that line. The wings, which have rather jagged outer edges, are an orangey-brown colour, with dark blotches and some paler coloured ones too. The body is hairy, and brown in colour, with hints of green on the thorax. The antennae are dark, and the thickened ends have whitish tips.
The Smartphone PhotographerAverageS@pixelfed.social
2025-05-02
A comma butterfly with orange and brown patterned wings is perched on a vibrant green leaf.
Es ist schwierig, Schmetterlinge zu fotografieren. Sie haben einen ausgeprägten Fluchtreflex und bevor man die Kamera richtig in Position gebracht hat, sind sie schon wieder weg.
Umso glücklicher war ich, als dieser C-Falter sich überhaupt nicht stören ließ und sich in verschiedenen Posen zeigte. So konnte ich die schönen Flügel einfangen.

🇬🇧 Photographing butterflies is never easy. They have a very pronounced flight response and before I can get the camera in the right position, they're gone. I was all the happier that this comma butterfly was not disturbed at all and was happy to be photographed in various poses. So it was possible to take a picture of its beautiful wings.

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#schmetterling #cfalter #commabutterfly #butterfly #insects #nature
Comma butterfly opening its orange wings on a violet flowerComma butterfly opening its orange wings on a violet flowerComma butterfly opening its orange wings on a violet flower
2024-10-04

Now that's the punctuation I'd like to see more of.
#CommaButterfly

Comma Butterfly
2023-09-29

It’s late in the season, but #today ‘s autumn sunshine warming the gravel has attracted this beautiful warm-orange Comma known universally as
Polygonia c-album
female I think, but of the late season hutchinsoni variety - maybe it was bred on our nettle patch (we have plenty on our field boundary!)

#AutumnVibes
#InMyGardenToday
#InMyGarden
#CommaButterfly #Butterfly #SaveButterflies
#ButterflyConservation
#Autumn #Comma #polygonia #hutchinsoni #GayGardener

A Comma butterfly sunbathing open-winged on warm grey stones. The Comma is orange with black spots, and edges of wings are ragged, with comm shapes at each tip.
2023-09-03

Change and decay
Life and death
Comma butterfly probably newly emerged from its pupa silently sips on the juice of an apple in advanced stage of decay

#SilentSunday
#AutumnVibes
#InMyGardenToday
#InMyGarden
#CommaButterfly #Butterfly #SaveButterflies
#ButterflyConservation
#Autumn

Newly emerged from its pupa, a Comma butterfly feeds on a decaying apple. The Comma is orange with black spots, and edges of wings are ragged, with comm shapes at each tip. The apple is also orange.
2023-06-22

At last a beautiful Comma sighted, the first of the summer brood.
I’ve read its numbers made a come-back in UK over the last 50 years, as it changed its preferred plant from hops to nettles. It’s one of the Polygonia butterflies, a name which means ‘many angles’ - as we can see on the edges of its wings.

#InMyGarden #CommaButterfly #butterflies #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #GayGardener #lepidoptera

open-winged butterfly on lavender. It’s wings are light brown with black blotches The edges of its wings have several angles, and the lowest point on hind wings is shaped like a comma.
2023-04-09

Easter sunshine draws first Comma butterfly from its hibernation, to feed on our bergenia & flowering pieris
#InMyGardenToday #lepidoptera #CommaButterfly
#BritishButterflies #butterfly

comma butterfly- orange brown mottled wings - feeding on pink flowerscomma butterfly open winged feeding on tiny white bulbous flowers. Wings are mottled brown /orange with lower edge comma-shaped
Helen Claytonhelenclayton@mas.to
2023-04-01

I’m not the only one who appreciates that it has finally stopped raining!
#butterfly #CommaButterfly #SpringSunshine #Nature

A comma butterfly, with its orange and brown checkerboard pattern and ragged wing edges, resting on a wooden fence rail. Green shrub and hedge behind.

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