Yellow butterfly

Yellow Sulpher butterfly on wild Lantana, taken yesterday in another state forest, same district and same rangers manage this one..again I saw things to make me angry...this patch of Lantana..only one I find in the whole 157,000 acres (at least the parts of that I can see from the better trails) is a mecca for butterflies and bees..always full of a wide variety. The forests here practise "regulated burns" to remove the duff and limit damage from wild fires..that is their reason, stated on signs throughout the forests...my opinion is the burns remove the undergrowth and make it easier and cheaper for logging companies to harvest the trees. Well, when I visited the lantana site last summer I saw they had burned it! A burn the week before had left the lantana untouched as it is not very close to the forest trees but at a open place with grasses, the lantana and scrub oak trees...they came back and burnt just the lantana...it did a remarkable job of overcoming that and began to bloom again..they burnt it again...this spring I saw it struggle back into growth...and yesterday I saw they had sprayed it with herbicide...what the heck is wrong with a patch of lantana? The forest is almost baren of wild flowers from the burning there...2 years ago the side of the trails were crowded with wild flowers of many kinds..now none...maybe I write another complaint to the forest manager and ask if they can leave just 10 feet of trail side untouched for wildflowers...yesterday's sight just set me off! The above bush of Lantana is beside a sigh showing the way to the horse camp and is cropped often so it hardly gets halfway to normal height...Shirley

Looks very similar to a Brimstone that occurs here in the UK, they burn and remove vegetation here in the name management, but it often removes much of the Biodiversty.

There doesn't appear to be any visible grain in this photo. You've done a good job with the composition as well as the exposure. I would make an attempt to sharpen the butterfly. You should have enough latitude to do so without any halo effect. Nice job!