Leave me alone! I’m laying an egg. Holly blue oviposition.
I came across this little female Holly blue (Celastrina argiolus) butterfly, depositing her eggs on bramble buds on 16th June 2019 in Galicia, Spain. It possible that she was a second generation butterfly, as the climate in NW Spain is mild and she was ovipositing on a typical second generation host plant, Rubus fruticosus. Unfortunately,…