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Butterfly

DateWed 2012-08-08

A white-letter hairstreak butterfly, Satyrium w-album (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae).  So-called because of the white W-shaped line near the orange patch on the wing.

Photo taken in the field below Chazey Wood, near Caversham, UK, on 2012-08-05.

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