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comma
Polygonia c-album
Comma
10.8.2005
Monks Recreation Ground

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonia_c-album
Has suffered some wing damage
Comma
Polygonia c-album
Comma
5.7.2005
Malthouse Meadow, Sompting
Comma
 Polygonia c-album
Comma
recorded: September 2000
Site : Lancing Ring
Notes:
Larval Foodplants: Hop, Stinging Nettle, elms, sallows, and currants.
Comma
Polygonia c-album
Comma
recorded: September 2004
garden
Comma
Polygonia c-album
Comma
St James-the-Less churchyard
Lancing
recorded: 26.3.2005
comma
Polygonia c-album
Comma
Lancing Ring
26.3.2005
Comma Butterfly
Polygonia c-album
Comma
18.07.2023
Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
 Red Admiral
recorded 13.7.04
site : Malthouse Meadows, Sompting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_atalanta
Larval Foodplants :  Stinging Nettle, Hop
Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
 Red Admiral
recorded: 5.8.03
Site : garden
Size:  30 mm
Notes: nectaring on Buddleia davidii

Red Admiral butterfly
Vanessa atalanta
 Red Admiral
18.07.2023
Peacock
Iglais Io
Peacock
Front garden
10.07.23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglais_io



peacock
Inachis Io
Peacock
Lancing Ring
23.4.2005
Peacock
 Inachis Io
Peacock
recorded: 13.4.03
Site: garden
Size:  28 mm

Larval Foodplant : Stinging Nettle
v. cardui
 Vanessa cardui
 Painted Lady
recorded: 2.8.03
Site : Garden

https://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=cardui

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_cardui
Larval Foodplants:  Thistles, also mallows, Stinging Nettle, Vipers Bugloss, and knapweeds.
v.cardui
 Vanessa cardui
 Painted Lady
tortoiseshell
Aglais urticae
 Small Tortoiseshell
5.7.2005
Malthouse Meadow
small tortoiseshell
 Aglais urticae
 Small Tortoiseshell
recorded: 2.8.03
Site: Garden
Link to Butterfly Conservation

Larval Foodplants:  Stinging Nettle, Annual Nettle, occassionally Hop
small tort
Small Tortoiseshell
recorded: 22.6.04
site: Malthouse Meadow, Sompting
small tortoiseshell
Small Tortoiseshell
Malthouse Meadow, Sompting
6.7.04
Small Tortoiseshell
Small Tortoiseshell
Lancing Ring
19.03.2005

https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/small-tortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell
Aglais urticae
Small Tortoiseshell
20.4.2005
Mash Barn Lane

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