Butterflies & Moths

To date, 34 species of butterflies have been recorded at Kintbury Eco Centre.

The listing below is taken from the definitive Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles (Agassiz, Beavan & Heckford, 2013) with the restricted subset for Berkshire taken from Life Cycles of British and Irish Butterflies (Eeles, 2019) and Atlas of Britain and Ireland's Larger Moths (Randle et al., 2019).

This website also contains a listing of Lepidoptera larval foodplants and Butterfly nectar sources.

Did You Know?
When positioned in the taxonomic order of Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), butterflies 'sit' within the moths!

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