2 weeks Ago
An array of wildlife was captured on film during a sunny Easter bank holiday weekend. Argus camera club member Glynn Rubidge encountered his very own Easter bunny as well as butterflies and bluebells as he explored Coombes, near Lancing, and the South Downs on Friday. A brimstone (Image: Glynn Rubidge) He photographed Grade I listed St Botolph’s Church, which came into existence in the Saxon era.
He also spotted a large white butterfly, a common brimstone butterfly perched on a bluebell and a rabbit popped its head out of its burrow. Brimstones are fairly large, pale yellow butterflies with distinctive, leaf-shaped wings. A large white butterfly (Image: Glynn Rubidge) The Wildlife Trusts said it is thought that the bright yellow colour of the male brimstone's wings inspired the name 'butter-fly'.
Large whites are known for their love of cabbages and adults fly between April and October. The Wildlife Trusts said of the large white: “The brassica-loving caterpillars of the large white are brightly coloured to warn predators that they are poisonous having accumulated mustard oils from the oil-seed rape, cabbages and sprouts they have eaten.”.
