UK Butterflies

May 2014 to Jul 2015 was my big butterfly year (and a bit). It didn't start off as such but as the year moved on we started to build an impressive list. The crunch came in July 2015 when we found a very late Chequered Skipper in Glasdrum Woods. It was a bit tatty but it was still flying so a life tick. Fifty eight species by the end of July would have been possible except that I had missed the trip to Norfolk to see the Swallowtail back in June. In retrospect not one of my better decisions.

I did actually finish 2015 on fifty eight species when we managed to photograph a long-tailed Blue freshly emerged at the end of October. A good couple of years but still missing that Swallowtail.

Fifty Nine Species shown below. Targets left still to find, if the wind is from the continent, Large Tortoiseshell, Queen of Spain and Camberwell Beauty.

Adonis Blue

Black Hairstreak

Brown Argos

Brown Hairstreak

Chalkhill Blue

Chequered Skipper - I know it's poor but it's the only picture I have.

Clouded Yellow

Comma

Common Blue

Dark Green Fritillary

Dingy Skipper

Duke of Burgundy

Essex Skipper

Gatekeeper

Glanville Fritillary

Grayling

Green Hairstreak

Green Veined White

Grizzled Skipper

Heath Fritillary

High Brown Fritillary

Holly Blue

Large Blue

Large Heath

Large Skipper

Large White

Long-tailed Blue

Lulworth Skipper

Marbled White

Marsh Fritillary

Meadow Brown

Mountain Ringlet

Northern Brown Argus

Orange Tip

Painted Lady

Peacock

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Purple Emperor

Purple Hairstreak

Red Admiral

Ringlet

Scotch Argos

Silver-spotted Skipper

Silver-studded Blue

Silver-washed Fritillary

Small Blue

Small Copper

Small Heath

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Small Skipper

Small Tortoiseshell

Small White

Speckled Wood

Swallowtail

Wall

White Admiral

White Hairstreak

Wood White