A common butterfly on hot days in spring, but normally hard to photograph. Usually very flighy, heading off at even a distant human approach.
This one settled to feed where I was already standing looking for other subjects, and then spend some minutes feeding, giving me views of it from various angles.
Wings from above and edge-on; its incredibly furry-looking body, long antennae and, in some pictures, seemingly even longer tongue probing flowers.
This is a male – the females lack the orange mark on each wing.
