Forewings also feature a black patch and a white bar at the wing’s edge. The underside of its hindwings has two large, dark eyespots, which sets it apart from the painted lady. The butterfly’s ...

Like a winged tiger, this butterfly has orange wings and black markings. It’s particular about where it lives, preferring scrub or coppiced woodland on limestone outcrops containing lots of bracken.

The Mourning Cloak Butterfly (Nymphalis antiopoa ) is one of the earliest (and the latest) flying butterflies in its native range, which spans widely across temperate North America and Eurasia. These ...

Nikonus and Iso had smiled upon me once again and seeing that I was actually making an effort they sent this butterfly as a reward. It landed on a flower about 12 feet away, just beyond the minimum ...

This means that, where the gene controls vertical stripes in other wild butterflies, WntA traces the veins of monarch wings in black, Martin said. “It's a subtle role,” he said, “but it has ...

The charity's Big Butterfly Count begins on Friday and runs until 11 August. ... Large white: Look out for white wings and black tips and, for females, two spots on the upper side of each wing.