Butterflies and Moths

on and around the Malverns

Photo Album Menu; separate page for grayling sightings.

Also see Butterfly Conservation web site. The Malvern Hills AONB and Butterfly Conservation have published, spring 2007, a guide book to Butterflies and Day Flying Moths of the Malvern Hills - limited availability so join the recording group to get yours, or download from AONB web site (pdf, 1.55MB). Target species to record for 2007 are Drab Looper (a moth - pdf factsheet) and Dingy Skipper.

UK Butterflies web site appears very informative. Wild about Britain has a picture gallery plus a forum which can help with identification queries. For moth identification, the UK Moths web site is comprehensive, but do note that there are hundreds of them. Misidentifications on these pages are my own.

**Garden, 2006**
Meadow Brown	Comma in conservatory	Comma before it got away	Bedraggled comma, early August
Red Admiral outside	Red Admiral inside	Gatekeeper on ox-eye	Silver Y Moth
Painted Lady	Ringlet
Painted Lady	Speckled Wood	Both seen 30th August
2007: Green-veined white	Orange tip, female	Moth on oregano

Comma on the Hills Comma at Castlemorton Common, July 06.

**On the Hills**
Small Tortoiseshell	Small Tortoiseshell again	Speckled Wood
Gatekeeper	Marbled White (female?)	Ringlet
Large Skipper	Painted Lady on flowers	Painted Lady on mud
Large Yellow Underwing Moth	Peacock	Small Heath (no larger image)
Small Heath	Small Copper	Small Copper (no larger image)
Meadow Brown, open	Meadow Brown, closed	Small Copper
2007: speckled yellow moth	A fairly washed out Painted Lady, after major rains	Lady la-di-da
Peacock strutting its stuff	Marbled White, near West of England car park	Burnet Companion moth?? (no larger image)
Brimstones	Comma	Green Veined White

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