6 Spot Burnets at Dunwich

On a walk along the Dingle side of the shingle on Sunday, I saw hundreds of freshly emerged Six Spot Burnets with plenty of cocoons still to open. With it being so breezy they hadn’t dispersed and were mating alongside the cocoons from which they had emerged and feeding on any ragwort flowers in the area.
A brief update on the expected, imminent explosion of Small Tortoishell Butterflies. Most nettles at home in sun, and all of those along the river wall at Herringfleet are just bare stalks and flowers, hopefully most of the larvae found enough food to reach their final instar.

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