Though it will come as no surprise, we are delighted to announce that the Purple Emperor Apatura iris L. has won Butterfly of the Year 2025, stormed it in fact.
Commiserations to the likes of the Large White, Comma, Peacock and Brown Argus, Common Blue and Small Copper, who might have won had the Emperor been less wondrous.
Here's an unusually dark-form larva in a twig fork in a veteran sallow in Savernake Forest, Wiltshire, signing the old year off -
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