Colourful visitor to a back garden at Bourne, Lincolnshire
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Colourful visitor to a back garden at Bourne, Lincolnshire
Image: © Rex Needle Taken: 13 Sep 2008
Urban back gardens have become a haven for flora and fauna as intensive farming practices and the constant use of agro-chemicals continue to destroy their natural habitats out there in the countryside. Putting out morsels of food regularly and the judicious planting of small trees, shrubs and flowers can attract birds and insects all year round such as this small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) photographed in Stephenson Way, Bourne, feeding on a buddleia, the only survivor on a bush of that year’s fading blooms.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.778707
Longitude
-0.369923