The Purple Emperor season at Knepp, W Sussex, continues to slip slowly away, though there is still a few fresh-looking females around, and even the odd male, but they have become highly localised and intermittent in appearance. Here's one of today's males, active on the feeder tree oak in the SE corner of Bentons Gorse (for those of you who know the place) -
The BC Glos branch butterfly WhatsApp group today featured a photo of a freshly-emerged female being courted by a middle-aged male - in my home parish! The season is still going strong there...
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