SPRAGGLESEA MEAD & DEAN’S HAM ALLOTMENTS

Butterfly  List





Most of the butterflies listed here will be seen every year. The Clouded Yellow is a migrant species which only reaches us in hot summers. 

The grassland species such as the Marbled White and Small Heath are unpredictable and probably breed nearby, but not on our site. 

 

 

Spragglesea Mead survey

List of Wild Flowers. Click here  to view.
List of Birds. Click here to view.
List of Butterflies. Click here to view.
Map. Click here to view.

 

 

COMMON NAME

SCIENTIFIC NAME

 

 

 

 

Brimstone

 Gonepteryx rhamni 

 

Orange Tip

 Anthocaris cardamines

 

Holly Blue

 Celastrina argioolus 

 

Small White

 Pieris rapae 

 

Large White

 Pieris brassicae 

 

Green Veined White

 Pieris napi 

 

Small Tortoishell

 Aglais urticae 

 

Peacock

 Inachis io 

 

Comma

 Polygonia c-album 

 

Red Admiral

 Vanessa atalanta 

 

Painted Lady

 Vanessa cardui 

 

Speckled Wood

 Pararge aegeria 

 

Hedge Brown

 Pyronia tithonus 

 

Meadow Brown

 Maniola jurtina 

 

Ringlet

 Aphantopus hyperantus 

 

 

 

 

OCCASIONAL VISITORS

 

 

Common Blue

 Polyommatus icarus 

 

Marbled White

 Melanargia galathea 

 

Small Skipper

 Thymelicus sylvestris 

 

Small Heath

 Coenonympha pamphilus 

 
Small copper 

 Lycaena phlaeas 

 

Clouded Yellow

 Colias croceus 

 

List compiled by Gerard Ledger, August 2015.