Late Flight

Monday 10th September 2001, West Yorkshire

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AFTER THE cooler weather we've had recently, the few remaining blossoms on the Buddleia bushes aren't crowded with butterflies, but there does seem to be a flight of Large Whites. Two of them flutter in an aerial game of tag near a third that is feeding on a hawkweed flower by the farm.

A green Shield Bug, probably the Hawthorn Shield Bug, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale, walks ponderously on the outside of the window pane, like a gleaming clockwork toy that is slowing down.

Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail; 'richard@willowisland.co.uk'

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