Lepidoptera

Thrift clearwing moth Pyropteron muscaeforme on Thrift illustrated for South Devon National landscape

From the series of Animals of Montserrat colouring-in illustrations commissioned by UKOTCF

Hanno blue butterfly Hemiargus hanno completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Red rim butterfly Biblis hyperia completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Hanno blue butterfly Hemiargus hanno Red rim Biblis hyperia completed for UKOTCF Montserrat

Dark green fritillary Speyeria aglaja completed for a chinaware company

Painted lady butterfly Vanessa carduii

Adonis blue butterfly Polyommatus bellargus cut to white, completed for a chinaware company

Small tortoiseshell butterfly Aglais urticae at rest, completed for a chinaware design company

Adonis Blue butterfly Polyommatus bellargus and Carthusian carnation Dianthus carthusianous

Small tortoiseshell Aglais urticae butterfly at rest with wings only slightly open.

Garden scene designed for use on seed packet for wild flowers.

Greater Bird’s-foot trefoil Lotus pendunculatus or Lotus uliginosus with calyx detail

Poplar Hawk Moth Laothoe populi cut to white with wings at rest held in typical position for this species

Butterfly bush Buddleja davidii sketchbook study sheet, showing details of plant

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly on Cuckoo flower Cardamine pratense side view

Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines butterfly.  Illustration shows male butterfly with wings open.

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)

White Admiral butterfly Limenitis camilla with outstretched wings.  This butterfly is a velvety brown with distinctive white markings, crossed with deep brown-black veins.

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

Common or Peleides blue morpho butterfly Morpho peleides.  Butterfly is on a leaf with magnified detail of the structure of the wing scales.  These ridges cause iridescence.  Illustration from “30 Animals that made us smarter” by Patrick Ayree (BBC Books).

China Mark caterpillar Nymphula stagnata on lily leaf, with close up showing the damage from the caterpillar’s burrow

Large landscape showing an idealised view of Bantham estate in Devon.  It explains the process of succession and stabilization in a sand dunes landscape.  Over 28 species of plant and 17 animals appear in this natural history illustration.  These include adders to sand wasps, Comma butterflies to linnets, and marram grass to Sea carrots. Species […]

Welsh meadow landscape with Redstart, buzzard, swallows and lots of butterflies (Gilfach Nature reserve).  Numerous animal species illustrated include swallows, hoverfly, grasshopper, and bees.  Flowers include knapweed, thistles, buttercup, bedstraws, betony, sedges, and other riverside meadow plants.