Beautiful butterflies

The regrowth after the end of Spring cut provides knapweed and red clover - loved by the summer butterflies for the nectar.

Some species settle long enough to be photographed. The Meadow Brown is the most common - understandable, as its host plants are meadow grasses.

A Mazarine Blue - red clover is the host plant.

A Clouded Yellow male...

...and female.

And a Painted Lady.

As last year, the swallowtails flitted past.