Peacock Butterfly

Here is another butterfly picture of which I am pretty proud. The peacock butterfly is a very beautiful butterfly and I have seen more of these over the last years than I have seen the small tortoiseshells. I mention this because I think when I was a child the small tortoiseshell was the most common butterfly I saw. Not anymore.

I hear that the more there are peacock butterflies the less there are small tortoiseshells. A real shame really sinse they bot are very beautiful. But as always one can not get everything. These two species of butterflies are both very beautiful in their own ways and I just wish neither of them become extinct.

Hmm. I wonder if neither of them are even endangered species. Hope not.