Adonis Blue Butterfly Lysandra Bellargus The Adonis Blue butterfly is a British butterfly. This family of blue butterflies can be quite difficult to identify as they can look quite similar. Nowadays with man's land use, the environment has changed too much - there are too few species to even be seen at all. However, I have seen a holly blue butterfly fluttering around the ivy
Purple Emperor Butterfly Apatura Iris The purple emperor butterfly is one of the most beautiful British butterfly species. The male is sometimes nicknamed ‘His Majesty’. He has a deep blue and purple sheen upon his wings. The female is only brown in colour. At a slight flutter of the wings, the purple emperor butterfly wings can change colour from black with white strikes to deep
Speckled Wood Butterfly Pararge aegeria The speckled wood butterfly is brown-coloured. Brown can seem so dull and rather boring. Brown butterflies sound like they shouldn't be when considering beautiful butterflies such as the swallowtail and purple emperor butterflies. However there are a family of butterflies called the satyridae or the 'browns' of which the speckled wood butterfly is a member. All satyridae species only have
Tortoiseshell Butterfly Aglais urticae The tortoiseshell butterfly is a well-known British butterfly but is becoming increasingly less common. The tortoise shell butterfly has quite an elaborate mating ritual. The males select a prime spot near the nettles, their main food plant, and waits for a female. He follows her from behind and drums his antennae on her hind-wings making a faint but audible sound. She
