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Butterflies
Woodland butterflies
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Hunting butterflies in magical meadows
Enjoy our showiest insects – and the flowers they depend on – at Cors Goch Nature Reserve
Butterfly discovery
A chance to see the progress of the grizzled skipper butterfly at His Majesty's Prison Berwyn now that North Wales Wildlife Trust jointly manages the site.
Butterfly count
Discover the 'Butterfly Transect' at Marfod Quarry Nature Reserve and be part of a vital citizen science project which has been carried out for 30 years!
Burnet companion
This day-flying moth is found on flowery meadows, often in the company of other moths and butterflies.
The Big Butterfly Orchid Count
Help us count greater butterfly-orchids and take part in an basic vegetation survey in the afternoon – no previous experience necessary!
My classroom
Pupils from Abingdon Primary School in Middlesbrough, Jon and Abdul, really enjoy learning outside the classroom, especially sketching butterflies.
Green-veined white
The green-veined white is a common butterfly of hedgerows, woodlands, gardens and parks. It is similar to other white butterflies, but has prominent green stripes on the undersides of its wings.…
Greater knapweed
The ragged-edged, purple flower heads of Greater knapweed bloom on sunny chalk grasslands and clifftops, and along woodland rides. They attract clouds of butterflies.