Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly

The Tortoiseshell is one of our most colourful species it often hibernates in houses for the winter.

Green- veined White

This butterfly is very common throughout Ireland. It can easily be mistaken for the Small and Large White species.

Ringlet Butterfly

The Peacock Butterfly

I think it's the brightly coloured eyespots that makes this species stand out

Speckled Wood

A very common butterfly species along hedgegrows and woodland.

The Common Blue

The outstreched wings of a male Common Blue Butterfly.

The Common Blue Butterfly

I think this is a female common blue.