Ever since childhood I’ve been captivated by butterflies. They are probably the most widely charismatic of insects. Not only are they typically very attractive in life but, due to the way the wing colours are made, they remain attractive in death (unlike dragonflies) making pinned collections a possibility. That’s NOT for me.
We begin with our home territory of Europe but I’ve also collected a handful of species that we’ve bumped into in further flung parts of the world. Since this page was a getting somewhat too long with the entire collection, I’ve moved the non-European suspects to pages of their own in these geographic areas:
| Papilionidae | ||
| Swallowtail | Scarce Swallowtail | |
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| Spanish Swallowtail | Spanish Festoon | Clouded Apollo |
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| Pieridae | ||
| Large White | Small White | Dark-veined White |
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| Green-veined White | Balkan Green-veined White | Wood White |
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| Black-veined White | Bath White |
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| Orange Tip | Provence Orange Tip | ||
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| Clouded Yellow | Brimstone | Cleopatra |
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| Lycaenidae | ||
| Blue-spot Hairstreak | Ilex Hairstreak | False Ilex Hairstreak |
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| Green Hairstreak | Purple Hairstreak |
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| Small Copper | Madeiran Small Copper |
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| Large Copper | |
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| Purple Shot Copper female | Purple-edged Copper | Sooty Copper |
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| Long-tailed Blue | |
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| Geranium Bronze | |
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| Langs Short-tailed Blue | |
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| Little Tiger Blue | Short-tailed Blue |
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| Small Blue | |
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| Osiris Blue | |
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| Green-underside Blue | Panoptes Blue | Silver-studded Blue |
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| Meleager’s Blue | Common Blue male | |
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| Brown Argus | Adonis Blue | Chalk-hill Blue |
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| Holly Blue | Escher’s Blue |
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| Riodinidae |
| Duke of Burgundy |
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| Danaedae | |
| Monarch | Plain Tiger |
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| Purple Emperor | |
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| Comma | Southern Comma | |
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| Map Butterfly | |
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| White Admiral | Southern White Admiral | |
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| Small Tortoiseshell | Red Admiral |
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| Macaronesian Red Admiral | |
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| Painted Lady | Peacock |
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| Cardinal Fritillary | |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary | |
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| Queen of Spain Fritillary | Titania’s Fritillary |
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| Knapweed Fritillary | ||
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| Spotted Fritillary | Provencal Fritillary | |
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| Satyridae | ||
| Marbled White | Western Marbled White | |
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| Great Banded Grayling | Woodland Grayling | Striped Grayling |
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| Ringlet | Piedmont Ringlet | Dewy Ringlet |
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| Scotch Argus | Meadow Brown | Small Heath |
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| Gatekeeper | Spanish Gatekeeper | Pearly Heath |
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| Chestnut Heath | Dusky Heath |
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| Speckled Wood | Wall Brown | |
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| Grizzled Skipper | Dingy Skipper | Mallow Skipper |
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| Large Chequered Skipper | Small Skipper | Essex Skipper |
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| Large Skipper | Red Underwing Skipper | |
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| Sage Skipper | Southern Marbled Skipper |
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