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Wildlife A-Z

Butterflies

An Essex skipper on a bramble flower. It's a small, orange butterfly with  black-tipped antennae

Essex skipper

Duke of Burgundy

A Scotch argus butterfly resting on a leaf, its brown wings open showing the orange patches and black-bordered white spots

Scotch argus

A wood white butterfly resting on a plant, with its distinctive oval wings closed

Wood white

Large heath butterfly

Large heath

High brown fritillary

High brown fritillary

Marsh fritillary

Marsh fritillary

Glanville fritillary

Glanville fritillary

Adonis blue

Adonis blue

Black hairstreak butterfly

Black hairstreak

Brimstone Butterfly

Brimstone

Brown Argus

Brown argus

Brown hairstreak butterfly

Brown hairstreak

Chalkhill Blue butterfly

Chalkhill blue

Clouded Yellow Butterfly

Clouded yellow

Comma butterfly

Comma

Common Blue butterfly male

Common blue

Dark green fritillary

Dark green fritillary

Dingy Skipper butterfly

Dingy skipper

Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper

Grayling

Grayling

green hairstreak

Green hairstreak

Green-veined White

Green-veined white

Grizzled skipper

Grizzled skipper

Heath Fritillary butterfly

Heath fritillary

Holly Blue butterfly

Holly blue

Large Blue butterfly

Large blue

Large Skipper

Large skipper

Large White butterfly

Large white

Marbled White

Marbled white

Meadow Brown

Meadow brown

Orange-tip Butterfly

Orange-tip

Painted Lady butterfly

Painted lady

Peacock butterfly

Peacock

Pearl-bordered Fritillary underwing

Pearl-bordered fritillary

Purple emperor

Purple emperor

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