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Adonis antennæ appearance August autumn bark beautiful Black-veined White body bramble Buff-tip Burnet butterflies and moths Carpet caterpillar feeds caterpillars chrysalis Clouded Yellow cocoon colour Common Blue creatures dark earth emerged England fens flies flight flowers flutter food-plant full-fed garden grass green Green-veined White grey hairs Hairstreak hatch Hawk Hawk-moth hedgerow hibernate insect July June Large White larvæ lays her eggs leaf leaves legs Life-size lower wings Magnification male MARSH FRITILLARY mating Meadow Brown migrants night Noctuids numbers Nymphalis Oak Eggar orange Orange-tip Painted Lady pair Pale Pale Clouded Yellow Peacock plants Plate VIII polychloros Privet proboscis pupa pupal pupate Purple Emperor Red Admirals rest Ringlet round scent seen silken Silver-washed Fritillary Six-spot Burnet Skipper Small Tortoiseshell Small Whites sometimes species spin spots spring summer sunshine Swallow-tail tiny tree Tussock twig underside upper wings Wall Butterfly White Admiral winter woodland young caterpillars