Invertebrate / Lepidoptera / Butterflies and moths

Small Heath Butterfly Coenonympha pamphilus showing underwings

Small Chocolate tip moth Clostera pigra holding its wings unconventionally held against a leaf background

Silver Y Moth Autographa gamma adult at an angle cut to white

Pearl Bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne cut to white

Large Emerald moth Geometra papilionaria with wings outstretched cut to white

Grayling butterfly Hipparchia semele

Hummingbird Hawkmoth Macroglossum stellatarum sketch feeding on a Nicotinia flower

Large blue butterfly Maculinea arion male showing underside of wings

Large Copper Lycaena dispar butterfly cut to white

Lunar Hornet esia bembeciformis Moth showing clear transparent hindwings and mimiryc patterns of wasp

Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia butterfly sketch showing markings, cut to white

Orange Tip butterfly Anthocharis cardamines with outstretched wings cut to white

Painted lady Vanessa cardui butterfly cut to white

Peacock butterfly Aglais io lifecycle with host plant nettle Urtica dioica

Prominent moth with brown lower wings outstretched

Elephant Hawk moth Deilephila elpenor with honeysuckle behind, feeding from the flowers in the evening

Dark Green Fritillary butterfly Argynnis aglaja with wings folded so you can see the green and species specific dark green colours on the underside, cut to white

Common blue Polymmatus icarus male with wings outstretched and view with wings folded showing white and black spots and orange spots

Common blue Polymmatus icarus male cut to whtie

Common blue Polymmatus icarus male in field, with background landscape and ladies smock, knapweed, scabious, and buttercups in meadowland

American cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni caterpillar showing pale green colour, cut to white and busy looping along