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Scotland has a wide variety of butterflies. From this page you can find out more about each of the Scottish Butterflies, what they look like, the timing of their lifecycle stage and their Scottish distributions. The distribution maps show the 10km squares where they have been found in three historical periods and so it is possible to get an idea of where their range is expanding or contracting.

There are also more detailed maps for the Fife and Clackmannanshire area.

Brimstone 
Brimstone - Allan Drewitt
Chequered Skipper
Chequered Skipper - Iain Leach
Clouded Yellow
Danube Clouded Yellow (underwing) - Adam Gor
Comma
Comma (upperwing) by Andrew Cooper
Common Blue
Common Blue (Mike Pickwell)
Dark Green Fritillary
Dark Green Fritillary
Dingy Skipper
Dingy Skipper
Essex Skipper
Essex Skipper (upperside) - Iain Leach
Grayling
Grayling - Tamás Nestor
Green Hairstreak
Surrey Green Hairstreak

Green-veined White

Green-veined White - Photo by Iain Leach

Holly Blue

Holly Blue - Dave Wright

Large Heath

Large Heath - Iain H Leach

Large Skipper

Large Skipper by Allan Drewitt

Large White

Large White, Stoke Beach Coast Path, 14.9.19 (Kev & Jacki Solman)
Marsh Fritillary
Marsh Fritillary (Pete Smith)

Meadow Brown

Meadow Brown, Exeter, 7.6.20 (Emilie Planchon Wipperfurth)

Mountain Ringlet

Mountain Ringlet - Mark Searle

Northern Brown Argus

Northern Brown Argus (upperwing/ssp artaxerxes) - Iain Leach

Orange-tip

Orange Tip Butterfly
Painted Lady
Painted Lady 6th Sept 21 - Eric Easom.jpg

Peacock

Peacock Butterfly

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Pearl-bordered Fritillary (underwing) - Iain Leach

Purple Hairstreak

Purple Hairstreak - Taddington - Steve Orridge.JPG

Red Admiral

Red Admiral (Mike Pickwell)

Ringlet

Ringlet (Toby Ludlow)
Scotch Argus
Scotch Argus - Bob Eade
Small Blue
Small Blue (upperwing) - Peter Withers
Small Copper
Small Copper
Small Heath
Small Heath (underwing) - Iain Leach
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (underwing) - Iain Leach
Small Skipper
Small Skipper Willy Lane.JPG

Small Tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell
Small White
Small White (upperside) - Dean Morley
Speckled Wood
Speckled Wood on Bramble Leaf - Haddon Hall Estate -Tony Pioli.jpg
Wall
Wall Brown male - Iris Martin.jpg

White-letter Hairstreak

White Letter Hairstreak

 

 

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