Wednesday 14 September 2016

Butterfly Larvae Food Plants:

Common Blue = Birdsfoot Trefoil
Common Blue Female on Birdsfoot Trefoil plant

Comma = Common or Small nettle


Clouded Yellow = Clovers, 
Birdsfoot Trefoil

Common Blue =

Birdsfoot Trefoil




Common Blue Male on white clover
Dark Green Fritillary = Common Dog Violet

Grayling = Marram Beach Grass


Green-veined White = Garlic Mustard


Holly Blue = Snowberry bush Bramble


Orange-tip = Garlic Mustard; Lady Smock (aka Cuckooflower)

Painted Lady = Thistles


Peacock = Common or Small nettle hops


Red Admiral = Common or Small nettle


Ringlet = Cocks foot grass,  false brome


Silver washed Fritillary = Common Dog Violet


Six-spot Burnet =  Birdsfoot Trefoil

Small Copper = Sorrel, Sheep Sorrel, Docks

Small Heath = Fescue grass


Small Tortiseshell = Common or Small nettle


Speckled Wood = cocks foot grass,  false brome


White Large = Nasturshums. cabbages


White Small = Nasturshums, cabbages 

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Those above in italics and underlined are species that I have never seen. I include them here anyway for the benifit of those lucky enough to have done so.


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