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What Butterflies
might you find in a hedge?
Birds | Butterflies |
Insects | Mammals
VANESSIDS AND
FRITILLARIES and Skipper
Red Admiral/Vanessa
alalanta
Small
Tortoishell/Aglais urticae
Painted Lady/Vanessa
cardui
Peacock/Inachis
io
Silver-washed
Fritillary/Argynnis paphia
March
Fritillary/Euphydryas aurinia
Dark Green Fritillary/Argynnis aglaja
Pearl-bordered
Fritillary/Clossiana euphrosyne
SKIPPER Dingy/Erynnis tages
Local, especially in limestone areas and on eskers. Sun lover. Fast flier. Dayflying Mother Shipton and Burnet Companion moths are 'lookalikes'. FP = Bird's-foot-trefoil (Lotus cornicultatus).