Butterfly The rare Adonis blue can be spotted on sunny chalk grasslands throughout summer. Males are a dazzling sky-blue in colour, while...
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Small white
Butterfly The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips. Spec...
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Green hairstreak
Butterfly The green hairstreak is the UK's only green butterfly. Look out for the vibrant, metallic sheen of the undersides of its win...
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Large white
Butterfly The large white is a common garden visitor - look out for its brilliant white wings, tipped with black. Species information...
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Clouded yellow
Butterfly The clouded yellow is a migrant that arrives here from May onwards. Usually, only small numbers turn up, but some years see mas...
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White admiral
Butterfly The White admiral is a striking black-and-white butterfly with a delicate flight that includes long glides. It prefers shady wo...
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Black hairstreak
The black hairstreak is a rare butterfly that is restricted to woodlands and hedgerows containing blackthorn - the foodplant of the cater...
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Small heath
Butterflies The small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name sugg...
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Grizzled skipper
Butterfly The grizzled skipper has a striking brown-and-white checked wing pattern. It is a fast flier, so is best observed in the mornin...
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Dingy skipper
Butterflies The moth-like dingy skipper is a small, grey-brown butterfly of open, sunny habitats like chalk grassland, sand dunes, heathl...
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Small blue
Butterflies The small blue's name is a little misleading: it is our smallest butterfly, but only shows a dusting of blue on brown win...
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Heath fritillary
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is...
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Brown argus
The Brown argus favours open, chalk and limestone grasslands, but can also be spotted on coastal dunes, in woodland clearings an...
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Painted lady
A well-travelled migrant, the painted lady arrives here every summer from Europe and Africa. This beautiful orange-and-black butt...
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Golden-ringed dragonfly
A voracious predator that will even eat other dragonflies, the Golden-ringed dragonfly is the UK's longest species. It can b...
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Purple emperor
The male purple emperor is a stunning butterfly with a brilliant purple sheen. Look for it feeding around the treetops in woodlands, or on...
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Holly blue
Look out for the small Holly Blue in your garden or local park. It is the first blue butterfly to emerge in spring, and a second generatio...
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