Peacock Butterfly

The butterfly season has started.
I was happy to spot a brimstone butterfly (on a pink geranium - without a camera reachable) and I was even more happy to get a blip of this peacock butterfly

Useless knowledge:
"As a long-lived butterfly, the peacock butterfly has very effective protection against its predators. When resting with folded wings, representatives of this species look more like dry leaves. If danger threatens, a movement program is triggered in which they jerkily unfold their wings, making a hissing noise and showing their eye-shaped wing markings. Zoologists from the University of Stockholm have found out through comparative experiments that with this defense strategy the eye signal located on the upper side of the wings has the greatest deterrent effect against birds. The drawing fools predators into believing that the animal is proportionally large to its eyes. The hissing noise is the most effective against mice" (*Wikipedia)

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