19/06/2026
In a brief break between tours I’m sharing my image of the month for June: a Duke of Burgundy, Hamearis lucina, photographed recently in the Vercors, southeast France.
We seemed to see this species with regularity in the region and it was a delight to have multiple photographic opportunities but I think this is my favourite image - taken with my long lens crouched at knee height as it perched in a sapling among long grass on the edge of a woodland glade.