LILIA Hughes snapped this curious creature on Saturday. As she picked up her laundry basket, she noticed the speckled wood butterfly looking back at her.

on Saturday. just after she had put the washing on the line. told us how on Saturday she had just put her washing on the line when she turned around to pick a laundry basket up and noticed a speckled wood butterfly was watching her Lilia wrote: “Hey, if you came down here to help me — you are a bit late — all job is done. Better give me a smile!

“And I took a few snaps of a funny insect!”

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