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.
Eggs of Large White
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Large White caterpillars, hatching |
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The metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies is always a source of fascination, and here are some pictures showing eggs, catterpillars and a chrysalis
Chrysalis of Large White
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Comma This one was sunning itself on the rail of the bridge leading from the meadow
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Comma showing underside of wing with the white comma shaped marking that gives this butterfly its name
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Gatekeeper Often seen among the bushes at the top of the Reserve
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Meadow Brown |
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Speckled Wood Often seen in Walnut Tree Plantation and other wooded parts of the Reserve |
Ringlet In the meadow
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Orange Tip, Male
Orange Tip, Female |
Orange Tip Showing wing underside |
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Silver Washed Fritillary This species likes low bushes and brambles
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Holly Blue |
Small Blue
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Six Spot Burnet Moth
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Often mistaken for a butterfly, this is in fact a day flying moth |
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Brimstone Moth Many moths are brown and uninteresting to the casual obsrver, but some, like this brimstone moth have beautiful colours and markings |
Detail of Brimstone Moth Wing Showing the scales making up a wing spot |
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Nemophora degeerella Found in Walnut Tree Plantation
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Great Oak Beauty Moth |
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Pine Hawk Moth Captured in Sam's light trap |
Black Arches Moth Another light trap capture
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