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What Butterflies
might you find in a hedge?
Birds | Butterflies |
Insects | Mammals
Butterflies
The greater the variety of plants and flowers in a hedge then the greater the number of types of butterfly you are likely to find. Many butterflies need specific plants or flowers to breed and feed. Also many butterflies in Ireland are visitors, migrating from other countries in the warmer weather.
Butterflies are grouped in families that reflect their colour!
Below you will find an alphabetical
list, by family, of many of the butterflies that you might commonly find in
Irish hedgerows.
WHITES AND
YELLOWS
Green-veined White
/Artogeia napi
Common
and widespread. Similar to Small White except for veins on underside of wing.
Very common and widespread.
Very common and widespread. Similar to Large White in appearance.
Wood White/Leptidea
sinapis
Widespread. Found mostly at woodland margins,
hedgegrows.
Orange Tip/Anthocharis
cardamines
Common and widespread. Roadsides, wet meadows and
marshes.
Brimstone/Gonepteryx
rhamni
Likes Buckthorn
Plants
Clouded Yellow/Colias
crocea
Migrant, mainly found
in southern and coastal areas. More likely to be seen during good
weather.