The Butterfly and Moth Piccies Page

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This is a compilation of all the butterfly pictures I have taken, collected into one page and categorised according to species. If you find any mistakes or can identify any of the pictures found in the 'Unidentified Butterflies' or 'Unidentified Moths' section then please let me know and I will make any appropriate updates.

= New entry for 2008. = New entry for 2007.
= I last saw this butterfly or moth in 2008 (may or may not have photographed it). Or I last saw it in .

Quick Jump Index:

British Butterflies (702)

Hesperiidae: The Skippers (79)
Dingy Skipper (12)
Essex Skipper (11)
Grizzled Skipper (11)
Large Skipper (19)
Small Skipper (14)
Silver Spotted Skipper (13)

Lyceanidae: Hairstreaks, Coppers and Blues (194)
Adonis Blue (15)
Black Hairstreak (9)
Brown Argus (14)
Brown Hairstreak (3)
Chalkhill Blue (9)
Common Blue (37)
Green Hairstreak (7)
Holly Blue (25)
Purple Hairstreak (11)
Silver Studded Blue (22)
Small Blue (10)
Small Copper (23)
White Letter Hairstreak (9)

Nymphalidae (219)
Comma (39)
Dark Green Fritillary (10)
Glanville Fritillary (7)
Heath Fritillary (25)
Marsh Fritillary (7)
Painted Lady (20)
Peacock (45)
Pearl Bordered Fritillary (4)
Purple Emperor (6)
Red Admiral (28)
Silver Washed Fritillary (5)
Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary (3)
Small Tortoiseshell (20)
White Admiral (5)

Pieridae: Whites, Yellows and Brimstones (78)
Brimstone (22)
Green-Veined White (13)
Large White (12)
Orange Tip (18)
Small White (8)
Wood White (5)

Riodinidae (20)
Duke Of Burgundy (20)

Satyridae: The Browns (115)
Gatekeeper (19)
Grayling (5)
Marbled White (15)
Meadow Brown (17)
Ringlet (12)
Small Heath (10)
Speckled Wood (31)
Wall Brown (6)

Aethes Smeathmanniana (1) | Agapeta Hamana (3) | Amblyptilia Acanthadactyla (4) | Bee Moth (2) | Brown House-Moth (2) | Brown Silver-line (1) | Burnet Companion (6) | Carcina Quercana (3) | Carnation Tortrix (5) | Celypha Lacunana (3) | Chrysoteuchia culmella (6) | Cinnabar (15) | Cochylimorpha Straminea (1) | Common Carpet (4) | Common Emerald (3) | Common Heath (1) | Common Rustic (1) | Common Swift (2) | Copper Underwing (2) | Crambus Lathoniellus (1) | Crambus Perlella (2) | Dipleurina lacustrata (2) | Double-Striped Pug (2) | Eana Incanana (1) | Emmelina monodactyla (2) | Esperia Sulphurella (2) | Eudonia Mercurella (3) | Five-Spot Burnet (14) | Gold Triangle (1) | Grapholita Compositella (1) | Green Carpet (1) | Green Longhorn (4) | Green Oak Tortrix (4) | Green Pug (1) | Homoeosoma Sinuella (1) | Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner (7) | Lace Border (2) | Large Yellow Underwing (2) | Least Carpet (1) | Lesser Treble Bar (1) | Lesser Yellow Underwing (1) | Light Brown Apple (5) | Lime Hawk (1) | Lime Speck Pug (1) | Marbled Beauty (2) | Marbled Orchard Tortrix (1) | Mother Shipton (5) | Mottled Beauty (1) | Muslin Moth (2) | Nemophora Degeerella (1) | Nettle-tap (3) | Orange Swift (3) | Pale Oak Beauty (2) | Parsnip Moth (2) | Pea Moth (2) | Platyptilia Pallidactyla (4) | Poplar Hawk (1) | Purple-bordered Gold (1) | Pyrausta aurata (1) | Pyrausta Nigrata (1) | Pyrausta Purpuralis (1) | Riband Wave (4) | Ruby Tiger (2) | Scalloped Oak (2) | Shaded Broad-Bar (2) | Silver Ground Carpet (4) | Silver Y (7) | Sitochroa Palealis (3) | Sitochroa Verticalis (3) | Six-Spot Burnet (10) | Small Blood-Vein (2) | Small Dusty Wave (1) | Small Elephant Hawk Moth (3) | Small Purple-Barred (1) | Small Yellow Underwing (5) | SpeckledYellow (3) | Spindle Ermine (1) | Square Spot Rustic (1) | Straw Dot (4) | Straw Underwing (2) | Tachystola Acroxantha (2) | The Clay (2) | The Drinker (1) | Treble Bar (2) | Vapourer (1) | Varied Coronet (2) | White-Shouldered House Moth (1) | Winter Moth (2) | Yellow Shell (5) | Yellow Tail (5)

Archduke (4) | Ariadne Ariadne (2) | Banded Peacock (2) | Banded Purple Wing (or Blue Wave) (1) | Black Tipped Diadem (1) | Black Witch (1) | Blomfild's Beauty (1) | Blue Morpho (8) | Blue Tiger (1) | Caroniflambeau (2) | Chinese Yellow Swallowtail (1) | Chocolate Pansy (4) | Clipper (Philippines) (7) | Clipper (Thailand) (6) | Common Crow (1) | Common (or Great) Eggfly (15) | Common Mime (1) | Common Mormon (3) | Common Rose Swallowtail (2) | Common Sergeant (2) | Cracker (2) | Cydno Longwing (5) | Dirphia avia (1) | Eacles ormondei (2) | Flambeau (4) | Gaudy Commodore (1) | Giant Atlas Moth (3) | Giant Swallowtail (5) | Glasswing (6) | Great Mormon (6) | Great Orange Tip (3) | Green Banded Swallowtail (5) | Green Barred Swallowtail (3) | Hecales Longwing (3) | Indian Leaf (6) | Lacewing (5) | Lemon Pansy (1) | Lime Swallowtail (2) | Lysimnia Clearwing (1) | Madagascan Moon Moth (3) | Malachite (3) | Monarch (3) | Mosaic (1) | Owl (6) | Papilio scamander (1) | Pink Cattle Heart (3) | Pink Rose (3) | Pink Spotted Cattle Heart (2) | Postman (5) | Protambulyx strigilis (1) | Red Lacewing (1) | Red Rim (1) | Riodina lycisca (1) | Sara Longwing (1) | Scarce Bamboo Page (1) | Scarlet Mormon (3) | Small Postman (3) | Tailed Jay (4) | Tiger Clearwing (2) | Tiger Striped Longwing (4) | Tree Nymph (8) | Violet Spotted Charaxes (1) | White Angled Sulphur (2) | White Morpho (3) | Xylophanes cyrene (1) | Xylophanes jordani (1) | Zebra (4) | Multiple (4)

Location Reference

These links provide a reference using Streetmap to the locations I have mentioned in my pages. Simply click on a link and it should open up a streetmap page with an arrow pointing to the location.

Aldbury Nowers: Lay by on road close to entrance.
Aston Rowant: Bald Hill where Silver Spotted Skippers were found. Park at Cowbleaze Wood, cross the road, up the track and a gate on the left provides access to Bald Hill.
Barnhill / Fryent Country Park: The pond at the top of the hill.
Bicester Airfield: Note: Access is restricted to gliding club members only.
Bison Hill: Entrance car park.
Blakeney: Car park. Walk north along the embankment for the butterflies.
Broxbourne Wood: Entrance car park.
Catfield: Between Catfield town and Barton Broad at end of unpaved road.
Chobham Common: Park in carpark to left of arrow near roundabout.
Crooked Mile: Lay by / place to park.
Denbies Hillside: Top of hill (there is a pay and display car park near by).
Fineshade Woods: Large pay and display car park at the site.
Fermyn Woods: Park at the entrance to the track on the south side of the road.
Glapthorn Cow Pasture: Park on the track off the south side of the road then cross over and into the SE corner of the reserve.
Gunnersbury Park: Car park.
Gunnersbury Triangle: Entrance.
Holme Dunes: Car park and Visitor Centre.
Horsenden Hill: Car park.
Hurst Castle: Lighthouse and castle where I saw the Glanville Fritillaries.
Ivinghoe Beacon: Entrance car park.
Lasham Airfield: Note: Access is restricted to gliding club members only.
Oakley Wood: Car park.
Oversley Wood: Car park.
Park Corner Heath: Entrance.
Park Wood, Ruislip: Arrow points to area where Heath Fritillary was spotted.
Seven Barrows: Car park and Marsh Fritillary field.
Sewell Cutting / Totternhoe Knolls: Best parking is in a car park in nearby Totternhoe, although the end of Sewell Lane seems OK.
Sharpenhoe Clappers: Entrance car park.
Stockley Park: Area is both sides of the bridge, and all around the perimeter of the golf course, including the swamp and meadow near the canal.
Tugley Wood: We parked at the entrance at the end of the path to the northwest of the arrow.

Links to Butterfly and Moth pages

British Butterflies
Weatherjack's Butterfly Pictures
UK Moths - Thanks to Ian Kimber for helping me identify some of my moths!
UK Lepidoptera - Covers moths and butterflies. Thanks to Jeff Higgot for helping me identify some of my moths!
Upper Thames Branch of Butterfly Conservation - Includes maps showing locations of good sites northwest and west of London.
The London Butterfly House. - Where I took my pictures of World Butterflies.
Butterfly Conservation Hertfordshire & Middlesex Branch - My local butterfly conservation branch.
Eggs, Larvae and Pupae of Butterflies and Moths - A site useful for identifying species.
London Pupae Supplies - A site I have used to identify some world butterflies.
Tropical Butterflies - Another site I have used to identify world butterflies.
Area de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica - Another site I have used to identify world leps.
Butterfly Favorites - Another site I have used to identify world leps.
Also thanks to Chris Court, Andrew Mitchell, Mark Skevington, Susie Milbank, Andy Banthorpe, Peter Hardy, David Manning, Elizabeth Goodyear, Thomas Spencer and Dave Wilton from UK-Leps and ukmoths for helping me identify some of my butterflies and moths!
Also thanks to Peter Hardy, Martin Honey, Daisy Johnston from UK-Leps and ukmoths, and Maria Justamond and the Natural History Museum for helping me to identify some of my World Butterflies.