Just Like Buses

You wait all year and then two come along together.

Actually there were six of them (together with a red admiral) on the one small bush. They all looked clean, bright and undamaged so I presume a migrant gravid female passed this way a couple of months ago and this is the result of a brood hatching.

Painted Lady - Vanessa cardui

I'll let you into a processing secret. There is no green on the butterflies and no green in the flowers so in 'Hue & Saturation', I was able to vastly reduce the saturation of green and also darken the green. That helped to let the main subject stand out more.