Sussex Butterflies Common Blue to Gatekeeper Photo Gallery Index

The Sussex Wildlifer Sussex Butterfly Identification Photo Gallery Common Blue to Gatekeeper All images on this web site are copyright © Paul Lister/The Sussex Wildlifer 2010
Click thumbnail for enlarged view	Species Name Location and Date Dimensions Normal Main Flight Period	Distinguishing Features and Comments
	Common Blue Bedelands: 8 August 2006 Wingspan 32mm April-October	The male is violet blue with a white fringe, the female rich brown with orange spots. Once you know this common species the other blue species and allies should be easier to identify.
	Common Blue Bedelands: 16 August 2006 Wingspan 32mm April-October	See above.
	Common Blue Bedelands: 16 August 2006 Wingspan 32mm April-October	See above.
	Common Blue Wolstonbury Hill: 5 June 2007 Wingspan 32mm April-October	See above.
	Common Blue Haywards Heath Garden: 7 August 2007 Wingspan 32mm April-October	Just what this thought it was doing in my town garden beats me, but what a welcome sight it was.
	Common Blue Haywards Heath Garden: 7 August 2007 Wingspan 32mm April-October	See above.
	Common Blue Haywards Heath Garden: 7 August 2007 Wingspan 32mm April-October	See above.
	Common Blue Haywards Heath Garden: 7 August 2007 Wingspan 32mm April-October	See above.
	Common Blue Bedelands : 23 May 2008 Wingspan 32mm April-October	2007 and 2008 have been disastrous years for this once very common butterfly. Both years have seen excessive rainfall at the wrong times of the year.
	Dingy Skipper Mill Hill: 24 April 2007 Wingspan 25mm May-August	This butterfly has, at first glance, a moth-like appearance, but its overall brown upper and under parts are really quite distinctive.
	Duke of Burgundy Near Storrington: 12 May 2008 Wingspan 30mm May-June	A rare and increasingly endangered species in Sussex.
	Duke of Burgundy Near Storrington: 12 May 2008 Wingspan 30mm May-June	See above.
	Essex Skipper Near Bolney: 8 July 2007 Wingspan 25mm May-August	Easily confused with the small skipper, but look hard at the tips of the antennae, which should be black and not orange-brown.
	Essex Skipper Pevensy Levels: 13 July 2008 Wingspan 25mm May-August	See above.
	Gatekeeper Haywards Heath Garden: Wingspan 40mm July-August	Note the two eyespots that differentiate this from a meadow brown.
	Gatekeeper Haywards Heath Garden: 13 July 2007 Wingspan 40mm July-August	Despite the almost incessant rain at times, the colours seem even more vibrant than usual this year.
	Gatekeeper Haywards Heath Garden: 13 July 2007 Wingspan 40mm July-August 13 July 2007	See above.
	Swirl of Gatekeepers Bedelands: Wingspan 40mm July-August	See above.

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