When you're looking for a white butterfly, it's amazing how many white butterflies you see. Large whites, small whites, green-veined whites – all three lumped by most people (especially gardeners) ...

The speckled wood butterfly is clamped to a squidgy blackberry and drinks deeply. Drunk and disorderly, he wavers through the air until he catches the whiff of ripeness, finds the fruit, locks on and ...

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A new species of butterfly has taken scientists by surprise after it was discovered fluttering in Northern Ireland. Experts had no idea that the Cryptic wood white even existed as they launched a ...