Lavender nectar

With frail ragged wings,
You sup lavender nectar,
From scented borders.

Back Blip

This is a Comma butterfly. Apparently it is called that because of a white shape on the underside of its wing which looks like a comma........ surely someone could've done better than that?

Anyway, they are apparently quite common (comman?) again now after a bit of a decline in the 1800s and early 1900s due to reduced farming of hops (it could've been called beer fritillary perhaps). Anyway since the sixties it's caterpillars wisely discovered a preference for nettles instead, so now numbers are thriving once more ..... especially in our garden ....