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Natural History: Insects

in the Hundred of Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire

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comma butterfly, Bradford on Avon

Comma butterfly, Polygonia c-album, Bradford on Avon

  — Lepidoptera: butterflies —  
insect: painted lady butterfly, Bradford

painted lady, Vanessa cardui, a summer migrant, on red valerian (Centranthus), Bradford

   small tortoiseshell butterfly, South Wraxall

small tortoiseshell, Aglais urticae, South Wraxall

   marbled white butterfly, Bradford on Avon

marbled white, Melanargia galathea, on Verbena, Bradford
insect: small white butterfly, Bradford

small white, Pieris rapae female, scourge of cabbages, Bradford

   insect: clouded yellow butterfly, Bradford

clouded yellow, Colias croceus, Bradford

   insect: red admiral butterfly, Conkwell

red admiral, Vanessa atalanta, Conkwell, Winsley
insect: speckled wood butterfly, Bradford

speckled wood, Pararge aegeria, Holt

   insect: peacock butterfly, Bradford

peacock, Inachis io, on Buddleja, Bradford

   insect: comma butterfly at The Courts, Holt

comma, Polygonia c-album, Holt
    Lepidoptera: moths    
insect: scarlet tiger moth, Bradfordscarlet tiger, Callimorpha dominula, Bradford   insect: scarlet tiger moth larva, Bradford

larva (caterpillar) of scarlet tiger, feeding on alkanet (Anchusa), Bradford

   Jersey tiger moth, Bradford on Avon

Jersey tiger, Euplagia quadripunctaria, Bradford
insect: silver Y moth, Bradford

silver-Y, Autographa gamma, Bradford

   moth, Bradford on Avon

carpet?, on a painted surface, Bradford

    
    Odonata: dragonflies    
damsel fly, Bradford on Avon

beautiful demoiselle, Calopteryx virgo male, Barton Farm, Bradford

   insect: southern hawker dragonfly, Holt

southern hawker, Aeshna cyanea, Holt

   insect: common darter dragonfly, Holt

common darter, Sympetrum striolatum, Holt
insect: damselfly, The Courts, Holt

damsel fly, Holt