QUODITCH BUTTERFLIES

"the highest enjoyment of timelessness is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone"

(Vladimir Nabokov (1891 - 1977)- "Speak Memory")

There is an abundance of butterflies, moths and caterpillars at Quoditch.

One of the reasons that the reserve is special is because it possesses lots of Devil's Bit Scabious which is the home for the Marsh Fritillary Butterfly. We have also seen Marbled Whites, Wood Whites, Orange Tips, Brimstones, Silver Washed Fritillaries, and Small Pearl Bordered Fritillaries.

Since starting this page several years ago we have found twenty four different butterflies, so we are now cataloguing them by their family names.

Hesperiidae

Lycaenidae

Nemeobiidae

Nymphalidae

Papilionidae

Pieridae

Satyridae

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE DEVON BRANCH OF BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION FOR THEIR KEEN INTEREST AND THEIR PRACTICAL HELP IN KEEPING QUODITCH SUITABLE FOR BUTTERFLIES.

Page last updated 16th April 2005

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