Peacocks are regular visitors of the Buddleia flowers in my garden. Here is my best picture at this time.

Light is beautiful at the end of this afternoon of June. A Peacock, landed on the ground, flies away as I come near. I stop at a small distance and it lands exactly at the same place. I walk closer with my camera, it flies away, I walk the other way, it lands again at the same place. I must find something to take this picture. Nobody in the area… I get closer, but crawling on the ground, in the direction of the backside of the butterfly. This works! I am even able to have the camera, less than 30cm, on top of the Peacock.

Peacocks enjoy resting in the sun light. We can even take pictures of the underside.

The dark colour of the underside of the Peacock's wings really contrasts with the bright colours of the upper side. I had difficulties to get a correct exposure. I think that the best way is to use exposure memorization pointing to a paler thing (leaf, trunk, etc.).

A little underexposed. I shot with the flash, the next one will be better.

A colony of caterpillars, at their first development stage, on a Nettle.

The Peacock caterpillars, at their last development stage, are black with white dots and long spines. They have black legs and orange pro-legs.

I have observed this caterpillar in a clearing. There were some pieces of black caterpillar skin on the Nettles in the vicinity. Are these dead caterpillars or are these remains after molting?

Some Peacocks sometimes winter hanging upside down on the ceiling of my garage. They fly out on the first hot days of the next Spring.