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Thursday 13 September 2012

Wine tasting butterflies

This Red admiral was enjoying a tipple of concentrated grape juice today...
...and so was this Comma.
Grapes are loved by wasps and birds - and also butterflies, it seems.
The red colour of these leaves is not an effect of the Autumn. 
According to viticulture expert, Dr. Georg K. Hill, it is due to magnesium deficiency in the soil.

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