Have all seen the herald of a golden summer?

Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
Lapsuliblikas paiselehel
Brimstone butterfly
 
Brimstone butterfly
Lapsuliblikas
     
 
Our best known spring butterfly. It winters as an imago, and when resting holds its wings closed. Brimstones are easy to identify: the males are brightly yellow, the females much paler, sometimes yellowish green. The tip of the forewing is hook-shaped and the hind wing square. There are red dots in the centre of the wings. With its long sucking proboscis it reaches the nectar in flowers easily.


 

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