Butterflies - LOCK-DOWN - 2020

The UK has  59  species of butterflies

– 57 resident species of butterflies

- and 2 regular migrants – the Painted Lady and Clouded Yellow

On July 28th I reached my target of seeing & photographing* 50 species

As of August 11th, I have seen  52 species in 2020   The Painted Lady eluded me until 11th Aug ! 


1. Dingy Skipper
2. Grizzled Skipper
3. Essex Skipper
4. Small Skipper
5. Lulworth Skipper
6. Silver-spotted Skipper
7. Large Skipper
8. Wood White
9. Orange-tip
10. Large White
11. Small White
12. Green-veined White
13. Clouded Yellow
14. Brimstone
15. Wall
16. Speckled Wood
17. Small Heath
18. Ringlet
19. Meadow Brown
20. Gatekeeper
21. Marbled White
22. Grayling
23. Pearl-bordered Fritillary
24. Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
25. Silver-washed Fritillary
26. Dark Green Fritillary
27. White Admiral
28. Purple Emperor
29. Red Admiral
30. Painted Lady
31. Peacock
32. Small Tortoiseshell
33. Comma
34. Marsh Fritillary
35. Glanville Fritillary
36. Heath Fritillary
37. Duke of Burgundy
38. Small Copper (1st picture is an aberration ab.caeruleopunctata (row of blue dots). (There are 140  named aberrations known to occur in Britain)
39. Brown Hairstreak
40. Purple Hairstreak
41. Green Hairstreak
42. White-letter Hairstreak
43. Black Hairstreak .... (*2019 photos)
44. Small Blue
45. Holly Blue
46. Large Blue
47. Silver-studded Blue
48. Brown Argus
49. Common Blue
50. Adonis Blue
51. Chalk hill Blue
52. Long-tailed Blue         (Uncertain migrant from the Mediterranean (not included in 59) and now regularly found on the South Coast - 2015 and 2019 were good years)
laying eggs
53. Swallowtail            (Norfolk - Nearly but not quite possible for me (with the lockdown) in 2020)

 

 

The following Butterflies are located in further to reach places, as described in brackets & especially in lock-down !

54. Chequered Skipper    (Fort William area - Scotland / Possibly Rockingham Forest, Northampton - reintrodction project from Belgium populations)
55. Cryptic Wood White   Ireland (County Armagh, Norther Ireland)
56. Large Heath        (Northern Species - Scotland, Cumbria, North West, Wales, Ireland)
57. Mountain Ringlet        (Scotland and Cumbria)
58. Scotch Argus         (Scotland and Cumbria)
59. High Brown Fritillary      (Dartmoor, Devon and Cumbria)
60. Northern Brown Argus (Northern England and Scotland)