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Common Butterflies - June

This page shows the commonest butterflies recorded in Yorkshire in June.  The photos are not intended to be used for identification purposes, but may be helpful in deciding where to start looking in your favourite butterfly book (eg 'Pocket Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland' by Lewington).  Click on any of the photos below to see larger versions.  You will probably want to take a look at the Butterfly Conservation website and also the Yorkshire branch of Butterfly Conservation (see the 'Galleries' section) for photos of butterflies which are not shown here (and more photos of the ones which are).

If you have better photos of any of the butterflies on this page, and are happy for them to be used here, then please email them to info@scarboroughwildlife.org.uk .  Remember that photos should show the main features used in identifying the butterfly and be of a 'standard' specimen rather than an unusual form.

Maniola jurtina

Meadow Brown

Pocket Guide: P120

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Polyommatus icarus

Common Blue

Pocket Guide: P64

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Aphantopus hyperantus

Ringlet

Pocket Guide: P122

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Coenonympha pamphilus

Small Heath

Pocket Guide: P124

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Pieris napi

Green-veined White

Pocket Guide: P40

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Pararge aegeria

Speckled Wood

Pocket Guide: P106

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Ochlodes sylvanus

Large Skipper

Pocket Guide: P22

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Pieris rapae

Small White

Pocket Guide: P38

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Erynnis tages

Dingy Skipper

Pocket Guide: P24

BC Webpage

Distribution map 

Pieris brassicae

Large White

Pocket Guide: P36

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Vanessa cardui

Painted Lady 

Pocket Guide: P82

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Aglais urticae

Small Tortoiseshell

Pocket Guide: P84

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Vanessa atalanta

Red Admiral

Pocket Guide: P80

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Thymelicus sylvestris

Small Skipper

Pocket Guide: P14

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Lasiommata megera

Wall Brown

Pocket Guide: P108

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Melanargia galathea

Marbled White

Pocket Guide: P114

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Anthocharis cardamines

Orange-tip

Pocket Guide: P42

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Inachis io

Peacock

Pocket Guide: P86

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Plebeius artaxerxes

Northern Brown Argus

Pocket Guide: P62

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Lycaena phlaeas

Small Copper

Pocket Guide: P54

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Celastrina argiolus

Holly Blue

Pocket Guide: P70

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Gonepteryx rhamni

Brimstone

Pocket Guide: P34

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Polygonia c-album

Comma

Pocket Guide: P88

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Callophrys rubi

Green Hairstreak

Pocket Guide: P44

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Plebeius agestis

Brown Argus

Pocket Guide: P60

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Satyrium w-album

White-letter Hairstreak

Pocket Guide: P50

BC webpage

Distribution map 

Pyronia tithonus

Gatekeeper

Pocket Guide: P118

BC webpage

Distribution map 

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