Friends of Warnham Local Nature Reserve

Insects: Butterflies & Moths

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta

Warnham Local Nature Reserve boasts a wide range of butterflies and moths, and our Warden, Sam Bayley, is a keen recorder of moths found at the Reserve. Here is a selection of butterflies and moths that you too may see when walking around.

 

Photonicrograph: Graham Matthews

Eggs of Large White

 

Photomicrograph: Graham Matthews

Large White caterpillars, hatching

 

The metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies is always a source of fascination, and here are some pictures showing eggs, catterpillars and a chrysalis

Photomicrograph: Graham Matthews

Chrysalis of Large White

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Comma

This one was sunning itself on the rail of the bridge leading from the meadow

 

Photo:Vivien Hodge

Comma

showing underside of wing with the white comma shaped marking that gives this butterfly its name

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Gatekeeper

Often seen among the bushes at the top of the Reserve

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Meadow Brown

Photo: Graham Matthews

Speckled Wood

Often seen in Walnut Tree Plantation and other wooded parts of the Reserve

Photo: Graham Matthews

Ringlet

In the meadow

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Orange Tip, Male

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Orange Tip, Female

 

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Orange Tip

Showing wing underside

 

Photo: John Wilks

Silver Washed Fritillary

This species likes low bushes and brambles

 

 

 

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Holly Blue

Photo: Aston Trelford

Small Blue

 

 

Photo: Aston Trelford

Six Spot Burnet Moth

 

Often mistaken for a butterfly, this is in fact a day flying moth

Photo: Graham Matthews

Brimstone Moth

Many moths are brown and uninteresting to the casual obsrver, but some, like this brimstone moth have beautiful colours and markings

Photomicrograph: Graham Matthews

Detail of Brimstone Moth Wing

Showing the scales making up a wing spot

Photo: Graham Matthews

Nemophora degeerella

Found in Walnut Tree Plantation

 

Photo: Graham Matthews

Great Oak Beauty Moth

Photo: Graham Matthews

Pine Hawk Moth

Captured in Sam's light trap

Photo: Graham Matthews

Black Arches Moth

Another light trap capture

 

 

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