Butterflies All Around
It was mid-morning, early June, and I was driving along the road from Cala Millor to Cala Ratjada. Suddenly I found 
myself engulfed by a deluge of butterflies! They were in their thousands, probably tens of thousands, and seemed to literally fill the air in a blaze of red, black and white. I’ve no idea what prompted this mass invasion, or indeed if it’s a regular phenomenon. So it would be good to hear from any Lepidopterists out there who can shed some light on it.
The butterflies in question I believe were painted ladies, and despite the vast number I don’t think there was a single splatter mark on the windscreen. Clearly they deserve to be complimented on their ability to fly around or over car windscreens rather than hurling themselves in to it as their nocturnal, and clearly somewhat dimmer cousins, the moths seem to do.
The photo was taken on the outskirts of Cala Ratjada, not far from Cala Agulla beach.
