SPECKLED WOOD Parage aegeria

Woodland rides and edges.

April - June & July - September. Foodplant: Various grasses

MEADOW BROWN Maniola jurtina Male. Grassy areas, open areas in woods. Mid June - mid September.

Foodplant: Various grasses

GATEKEEPER Pyronia tithonus Male

Grassy areas, woodland rides, and along hedgerows.

Early July - mid September.

Foodplant: Various grasses.

RED ADMIRAL Vanessa atalanta

Any habitat. Migrant.

End May - mid July, early August - mid Oct. or later.

Foodplant: Stinging nettle, hop.

PAINTED LADY Vanessa cardui

Rough ground and lanes.

Mid May - end June, early Aug - end September or later.

Foodplant: Thistles, Stinging nettles

SMALL TORTOISESHELL

Aglais urticae  Any habitat.

Mid June - mid August, Sept - end May following year.

Foodplant: Stinging nettle

Thanks to Iris Newbery A.R.P.S. a Member of Butterfly Conservation for the photographs and text.

PEACOCK  Inachis io

Any habitat.

Mid July - end May following year.

Foodplant: Stinging nettle.

COMMA Polygonia c-album

Clearings and rides in woods.

End June - end April following year.

Foodplant: Stinging nettle, hop.

COMMON BLUE  Polyommatus icarus

Male. Rough ground, downland, heathland.

Beginning Jun - July, Aug - Sept/Oct.

Foodplant: Bird's foot trefoil.

COMMON BLUE  Polyommatus icarus

Female.

HOLLY BLUE Celastrina argiolus

Female.  Woods, hedgerows

Beginning April - end May, August.

Foodplant: Spring - Holly

                  Autumn - Ivy.

PURPLE HAIRSTREAK larva. 

PURPLE HAIRSTREAK
Quercusia quercus

Oak woods

Beginning July - end August

Foodplant: Common oak.

PURPLE HAIRSTREAK

Quercusia quercus Female

Photo: Brian Ecott.

SMALL COPPER Lycaena phlaeas

Fields and open ground.

Three broods May-mid June,

July-Aug, mid Sept-Oct.

Foodplant: Common sorrel, Sheep sorrel and other docks.

ORANGE TIP Anthocharis cardamines

Wood edges, hedgerows, and damp meadows.

Beginning May - end June.

Foodplant: Cruciferous plants i.e. Garlic mustard, Cuckoo flower.

ORANGE TIP Female

Anthocharis cardamines

GREEN VEINED WHITE pair

Pieris napi

Woodlands, damp meadows.

Mid April - mid June,

mid July - end August.

Foodplant: Garlic mustard, Water cress.

SMALL SKIPPER

Thymelicus sylvestris

Grassy areas

End June - mid August

Foodplant: Softer grasses such as Yorkshire Fog.

LARGE SKIPPER Ochlodes venata

Meadows, rough ground, rides and clearings.

Early June - early August.

Foodplant: Grasses.

Photo: Brian Ecott.

WHITE ADMIRAL Limenitis camilla

Roe's Well. 4th September 2006.

Honeysuckle for egg laying, bramble foodplant.

Photo: Brian Ecott

RINGLET PAIR Aphantopus hyperantus

The Common. 13th July 2007.

Grasses for egg laying, bramble foodplant.

Photo: Brian Ecott.