It is a food plant of the Brimstone butterfly.

A brimstone butterfly flirted among the purple shadows under the palms.

A bright yellow brimstone butterfly fluttered past.

We were happy to see bushes of buck thorn, which is the food plant of the yellow brimstone butterfly, left to flourish.

The white path led me to the mystic monument of Chanctonbury Ring and through forgotten meadows blessed by skylarks and brimstone butterflies.

Alder Buckthorn has limited decorative qualities without conspicuous flowers or bold foliage, and is mainly grown for its conservation value, particularly to attract Brimstone butterflies.

Red admiral and brimstone butterflies have been seen on the wing and buff-tailed bumblebees have been spotted as wildlife makes the most of the mild weather.

He is commemorated in the subspecies of the Brimstone butterfly found in Ireland, Gonepteryx rhamni gravesi Huggins, 1956.

Rhamnus frangula is one of just two food plants (the other being Rhamnus cathartica) used by the Common Brimstone butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni.

According to the TES (formerly the Times Educational Supplement), "From April, holly blue, peacock and brimstone butterflies abound.

An enormous pinwheel bow performed the function of a brimstone butterfly - in reality the bow was white - on her smoothly falling, approximately medium-brown hair, which was cut to shoulder length.

Upon emerging from the pupae, Brimstone butterflies spend the summer feeding on nectar to build up energy reserves for the winter and by the end of August they are already beginning their long sleep.

And at that moment, as though to emphasize the thrill of excited bewilderment they felt, a gorgeous brimstone butterfly sailed carelessly past before their eyes and vanished among the pools of sunlight by the forest edge.

It was not until 1793 that the hoax was discovered by Johan Christian Fabricius, who recognised that the dark patches had been painted on, and that the specimen was a common Brimstone butterfly (now called Gonepteryx rhamni).

Most of the new names included in Centuria Insectorum are still in use, although a few have been sunk into synonymy, and one was the result of a hoax: a Common Brimstone butterfly with spots painted on was described as the new "species" Papilio ecclipsis.

This was based on a specimen sent by William Charlton to James Petiver in 1702, who wrote: "It exactly resembles our English Brimstone Butterfly (R. Rhamni), were it not for those black spots and apparent blue moons on the lower wings.