Meadow Brown Butterfly

Maniola jurtina

Brimstone Butterfly

Gonepteryx rhamni

Speckled Wood Butterfly

Pararge aegeria

Speckled Wood Butterfly (Pararge aegeria) on leaf, side view with wings closed; brown and cream with eye making of black and white on top of main wing.

Speckled Wood Butterfly

Pararge aegeria

Silver-washed Fritillary Butterfly

Argynnis paphia

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

Aglais urticae

Monarch Butterfly 

Danaus plexippus (New South Wales)

Cabbage White Butterfly

Pieris rapae​​​​​​​

European Peacock Butterfly

Aglais io

Ringlet Butterfly

Aphantopus hyperantus

Damselfly, Banded demoiselle, on a leaf, dark metallic blue and green

Damselfly

Banded demoiselle

Red admiral, Vanessa atalanta, top view with wings open on a leaf

Red admiral

Vanessa atalanta

Common Blue Damselfly

Enallagma cyathigerum

White-legged Damselfly  (Platycnemis pennipes) sitting on green bud

White-legged Damselfly

Platycnemis pennipes

Green Damselfly (Zygoptera) on green leaf

Green Damselfly

Zygoptera

Large Red Damselfly

Pyrrhosoma nymphula

Yellow Winged Dragonfly (Sympertrum flaveolum), side view settled on some old wood of a bridge

Yellow Winged Dragonfly

Sympertrum flaveolum

Yellow Winged Dragonfly, Sympertrum flaveolum, rear view on stalk

Yellow Winged Dragonfly

Sympertrum flaveolum

Hoverfly (Eupeodes latifasciatus) four, yellow with black markings, on yellow plant various angles

Hoverfly 

Eupeodes latifasciatus

Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) brown and hairy at the bees eye level front left hand side

Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Six-spot Burnet caterpillars 

Zygaena filipendulae

Six-spot Burnet moths (Zygaena filipendulae) on a thistle flower

Six-spot Burnet Moths

Zygaena filipendulae

Green Hairstreak butterfly on a fern.  Showing its green underside wing with a faint white dotted streak, its hairy body and black and whit stripped antennae with a black end and  orange tip.

Green Hairstreak

Callophrys rubi

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