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Somehow stationary - _TNY_4228

I was actually looking for tiny jumping spiders on the side of the garage when I noticed something substantially larger.

 

This butterfly had landed on the wall and was not looking to move in the first place. I of course didn't complain and proceeded to take a bunch of photos of it which came out quite nicely.

 

Unfortunately, this one wasn't interested at all in opening its wings so I was never able to see the dorsl side of the wings which is why I am unsure which exact species this is. There are two quite similar species, the large wall brown (Lasiommata maera) and the northern wall brown (Lasiommata petropolitana) and I can't say definitively which it is - though I am leaning towards the latter as it was fairly small.

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Uploaded on July 15, 2023
Taken on July 2, 2023