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Browns ; family Satyridae


These butterflies are mainly brown and have eye spots on their wings.
The front legs are like "Hairy brushes".
The larvae feed on grasses and sedges.
We have 11 species in the UK.
Speckled wood butterfly - Parage aegaria !
Speckled wood butterfly - Parage aegaria !		 Speckled wood butterfly - Parage aegaria!
Speckled wood butterfly - Parage aegaria!		 Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus		 Gatekeeper - Pyronia tithonus.
Gatekeeper - Pyronia tithonus.		 Gatekeeper- Pyronia tithonus.
Gatekeeper- Pyronia tithonus.
Medow brown- Maniola jurtina.
Medow brown- Maniola jurtina.		 Gatekeeper - Pyronia tithonus.
Gatekeeper - Pyronia tithonus.		 Medow Brown - Maniola jurtina
Medow Brown - Maniola jurtina		 The Gate keeper - Pyronia tithonus!
The Gate keeper - Pyronia tithonus!		 The fly and the Gatekeeper - Pyronia tithonus!
The fly and the Gatekeeper - Pyronia tithonus!
Coming into land!
Coming into land!

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