Biosphoto | 2578899 | Male Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) on a flowering common thistle (Cirsium vulgare), in the Rhine forest of La Robertsau in early September, in the heart of the National Nature Reserve of the Robertsau and La Wantzenau forest massif. Alsace, France | © Yves Noto Campanella / Biosphoto
Biosphoto | 2578899 | Male Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) on a flowering common thistle (Cirsium vulgare), in the Rhine forest of La Robertsau in early September, in the heart of the National Nature Reserve of the Robertsau and La Wantzenau forest massif. Alsace, France | © Yves Noto Campanella / Biosphoto
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Male Brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) on a flowering common thistle (Cirsium vulgare), in the Rhine forest of La Robertsau in early September, in the heart of the National Nature Reserve of the Robertsau and La Wantzenau forest massif. Alsace, France

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2578899
License
Right Managed
Date of shooting
2021-09-01