Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Common brimstone butterfly

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Original – A male common brimstone butterfly, Parsonage Moor, Oxfordshire, England
Reason
Fine detail on a fresh specimen of this British butterfly, showing the scales on the wing in some detail. Featured on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears
Common brimstone
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Animals/Insects
Creator
Charlesjsharp
  • Me too. As you know, they never perch wings open so you have to catch them in flight and, as my so-so image on the Wikipedia page shows, it's really difficult (best of 50 pictures I took over ten minutes!). Charlesjsharp (talk) 11:20, 18 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Common brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) male.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:39, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]