
Bird’s-foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus
Completed for Butterfly Conservation. The plant shows flowers and seed pods.

Orange-tip butterfly with Cuckoo-flower
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 Ladies smock Cardamine pratensis
Cuckooflower or Lady’s-smock Cardamine pratensis showing basal rosette, flowers, and young silique seed pods.

Monarch & Queen butterflies on Mexican milkweed
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
Rough meadow grass Poa trivialis botanical illustration

Brimstone butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni
Brimstone butterfly Gonepteryx rhamni with wings spread

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

Butterfly bouquet
Butterfly bouquest invented mix of flowers and butterfly cut to white

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

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

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

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

Red necked footman Atolmis rubricollis
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
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 2
Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white

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

Six spot burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae life cycle
Six spot burnet moth Zygaena filipendulae showing food plants Birds foot trefoil Lotus corniculata and all the life stages of the life cycle including the yellow spotted with black caterpillar and amazing paper cocoons then dramatic moth with black and red wings, along with the papery cocoon wihcih is attached to tall stems of grasses

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

Small Copper Lycanae phlaeas Butterfly
Small Copper Lycanae phlaeas Butterfly cut to white

Small Heath Butterfly Coenonympha pamphilus
Small Heath Butterfly Coenonympha pamphilus showing underwings

Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterfly Boloria selene
Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary butterfly Boloria selene

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae life cycle
Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae life cycle illustrated in pen and ink with colour top wash and host plant nettle

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae
Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae cut to white dead specimen so wings folded further back than in life

Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria
Speckled Wood butterfly Pararge aegeria cut to white