Kim Taylor / Comma butterfly pupa {Polygonia c-album} on nettle leaf. UK.

Kim Taylor / Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album) caterpillar on nettle. Surrey, UK

Hans Christoph Kappel / Comma Butterfly flying, Germany

Hans Christoph Kappel / Comma Butterfly. Germany

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Comma (Polygonia c-album) on Buddleia flowers in garden, England

Rod Williams / Comma butterfly (Polygonia C-album) feeding on Purple Loosestrife flowers, Barn Elms, London, UK, July

Michael & Patricia Fogden / Comma (Polygonia c-album) showing underwing on Buddleia flowers in garden, England

Robin Chittenden / Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) resting on a flower, Norfolk, England, UK. July.

Robin Chittenden / Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) resting on a leaf, Norfolk, England, UK. July.

Paul Harcourt Davies / European comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) resting on leaf, Umrbia, Italy. November.

Ross Hoddinott / Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) feeding on windfall apples. Cornwall, England, UK. October.

Ross Hoddinott / Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) feeding on windfall apples. Cornwall, England, UK. October.

Robin Chittenden / Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) on Marsh thistle (Cirsium palustre) flower. Foxley Wood, Norfolk, England, UK. July.

Neil Challis / Coma butterfly (Polygonia c-album) and Bumblebee (Bombus sp.) competing to feed at Bramble flower, Ashridge, Hertfordshire, UK, July.

Robert Pickett / Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album) egg on Stinging Nettle leaf, UK.

Robert Pickett / Comma Butterfly egg (Polygonia c-album) on Stinging Nettle leaf, UK

Robert Pickett / Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album) camouflaged on brown, dead leaf, UK