White Admiral - Limenitis camilla

White Admiral

Limenitis camilla

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Switzerland, June 2005

Suffolk, UK, July 1986

France, July 2006

Switzerland, July 2006

Oxfordshire, June 2006

The white admiral is a wonderful butterfly, associated with high summer in old woodlands, where it swoops along rides, defends territories from shoulder-high perches or feeds avidly on bramble blossom. It is superficially similar to the southern white admiral, L. reducta, but so different in reality the two butterflies are unlikely ever to be confused.