Invertebrate Gallery

Orange Tip Butterfly, Anthocharis cardamines

Orange Tip Butterfly (Anthocharis cardamines) - adult male in flight over crocus flowers, females lack the oragne tip
Order Lepidoptera, Family Pieridae, wings closed showing patter on underside of wing, antennae, compound eye, hairy body, spring, hedgerows, gardens, damp meadows and woodland margins, high speed photographic technique, flying

Horse fly Tabanus bovinus

Horse fly Tabanus bovinus close up of head with large compound eyes and short antennae, biting insect, piercing and sucking mouthparts, pest

Animal, Antenna, Arthropod, Arthropoda, Compound, Critter, Ecoscene, Environment, Eye Insect, Invertebrate, Jointed Leg, Minibeast

Large Copper Butterflies. Lycaena dispar

Pair of large Copper Butterflies. Lycaena dispar. became extinct in the UK in 1851. A rare Dutch subspecies, L. dispar batavus, was introduced to Woodwalton Fen in Cambridgeshire in 1927. The population has subsequently had to be re-introduced or supplemented on several occasions, from captive stock. The butterfly is listed as a Globally threatened species by IUCN and WCMC