Welcome to the Cambridgeshire & Essex Photo page for butterfly (and moth) images sent in to our Sightings page.
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 Small Tortoiseshell Langdon Hills Country Park (TQ699864) 31/05/25 © David Lazarus Small Tortoiseshell Langdon Hills Country Park (TQ699864) 31/05/25 © David Lazarus |  Meadow Brown Langdon Hills Country Park (TQ699864) 31/05/25 © David Lazarus Meadow Brown Langdon Hills Country Park (TQ699864) 31/05/25 © David Lazarus |  Large Skipper Langdon Hills Country Park (TQ699864) 31/05/25 © David Lazarus Large Skipper Langdon Hills Country Park (TQ699864) 31/05/25 © David Lazarus |  Essex Skipper Burnham-on-Crouch (TQ975953) 30/05/25 © David Lazarus Essex Skipper Burnham-on-Crouch (TQ975953) 30/05/25 © David Lazarus |
 Small Heath Burnham-on-Crouch (TQ975953) 30/05/25 © David Lazarus Small Heath Burnham-on-Crouch (TQ975953) 30/05/25 © David Lazarus |  Common Blue female ovipositing Burnham-on-Crouch (TQ975953) 30/05/25 © David Lazarus Common Blue female ovipositing Burnham-on-Crouch (TQ975953) 30/05/25 © David Lazarus |  Marbled White Devils Dyke Race course end (TL617616) 30/05/25 © Steve Binding/ Paul Fisher Marbled White Devils Dyke Race course end (TL617616) 30/05/25 © Steve Binding/ Paul Fisher |  Dark Green Fritillary Devils Dyke Race course end (TL617616) 30/05/25 © Steve Binding/ Paul Fisher Dark Green Fritillary Devils Dyke Race course end (TL617616) 30/05/25 © Steve Binding/ Paul Fisher |
 Speckled wood Mundon, Essex (TL872013) 24/05/25 © Julia Osborne Speckled wood Mundon, Essex (TL872013) 24/05/25 © Julia Osborne |  Small heath as taken Sea wall just beyond North Fambridge marina, Essex (TQ842973) 29/05/25 © Julia Osborne Small heath as taken Sea wall just beyond North Fambridge marina, Essex (TQ842973) 29/05/25 © Julia Osborne |  Small heath zoomed in Sea wall just beyond North Fambridge marina, Essex (TQ842973) 29/05/25 © Julia Osborne Small heath zoomed in Sea wall just beyond North Fambridge marina, Essex (TQ842973) 29/05/25 © Julia Osborne |  painted lady Fingringhoe Wick 28/05/25 © Liz Huxley painted lady Fingringhoe Wick 28/05/25 © Liz Huxley |
 Large Skipper male Great Staughton river walk (TL135642) 28/05/25 © Stephen Binding Large Skipper male Great Staughton river walk (TL135642) 28/05/25 © Stephen Binding |  Small White Great Staughton river walk (TL135642) 28/05/25 © Stephen Binding Small White Great Staughton river walk (TL135642) 28/05/25 © Stephen Binding |  Meadow Brown Meadgate & Baddow Meads (TL722058) 26/05/25 © David Lazarus Meadow Brown Meadgate & Baddow Meads (TL722058) 26/05/25 © David Lazarus |  Black hairstreak female Monks Wood (TL2080) 25/05/25 © Phil Bromley & Rosalyn Payne Black hairstreak female Monks Wood (TL2080) 25/05/25 © Phil Bromley & Rosalyn Payne |
 Common Blue Highwoods Country Park, Southern Fields (Colcheste (TM0027) 23/05/25 © Ole Wiedenmann Common Blue Highwoods Country Park, Southern Fields (Colcheste (TM0027) 23/05/25 © Ole Wiedenmann |  Green Hairstreak, Fleam Dyke Fleam Dyke, Fulbourn (TL543546) 23/05/25 © Keith Edkins Green Hairstreak, Fleam Dyke Fleam Dyke, Fulbourn (TL543546) 23/05/25 © Keith Edkins |  Small Blue, Roman Road Roman Road, Babraham (TL526520) 23/05/25 © Keith Edkins Small Blue, Roman Road Roman Road, Babraham (TL526520) 23/05/25 © Keith Edkins |  Heath Fritillary male Hadleigh Great Wood (TQ818878) 23/05/25 © David Lazarus Heath Fritillary male Hadleigh Great Wood (TQ818878) 23/05/25 © David Lazarus |