host plant

Completed for Butterfly Conservation.  The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly with Cuckoo-flower Cardamine pratensis.  Illustration shows male butterfly with wigs open, and another with wings folder closed on the host plant Cuckoo-flower (or Ladies’ smock)

Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus & Queen butterfly Danaus gilippus life cycle on Mexican milkweed Asclepias curassavica.  Illustration includes pupa and caterpillar for both species.

Rough meadow grass Poa trivialis botanical illustration

Brimstone butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni with wings spread

Blackthorn or Sloe Prunus spinosa, one sprig in blossom and the other bearing fruit

Butterfly bouquest invented mix of flowers and butterfly cut to white

Brown hairstreak Thecla betulae with wings folded, female flying behind, adult in foreground resting on a leaf

Comma butterfly Polygonia c-album from above and from side cut to white

Deaths head hawkmoth Acherontia atropos cut to white showing skull pattern on thorax

Forester moth Adscita statices with folded wings on a scabious flower, showin1g black colour and glittery irridescence of the wings

Heath fritillary butterfly Melitaea athalia on cowwheat with speedwell, one in flight and one showing folded underwings

Red necked footman Atolmis rubricollis on cuckoo flower Cardamine with black wings folded and scarlet red collar on view

Silver washed fritillary butterfly Argynnis paphia cut to white one with folded wings one in flight, feeding on scabious flowers

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white

Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus and meadow brown aniola jurtina butterfly in amongst grasses in a meadow, some in flight, with with upper wings on show and some showing under wings

Tobacco horn worm Manduca sexta moth

Scarlet tiger moth Callimorpha dominula on birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata plant

Tobacco horn worm Manduca sexta with food plant tobacco

Silver Y Moth Autographa gamma lifecycle showing caterpillar, silk cocoon, adult and egg arranged around the round leaved mint food plant

White admiral Limenitis camilla caterpillar and adult bitterfly quick sketch with food plant

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

Black hairstreak butterfly Satyrium pruni showing brown underwing and perched on a flowering bramble Rubus species