Ten Butterflies and Moths species on one afternoon on the South Downs.

Saturday 31st May on the South Downs and butterflies and moths were flying.  Ten species were photographed.

A Small-Purpled barred Moth

This looks to me like a Common Blue.

Whereas this is an Adonis Blue   Click the link for more info'.

Our smallest resident butterfly is easily overlooked, partly because of its size and dusky colouring, but partly because it is often confined to small patches of sheltered grassland where its sole foodplant, Kidney Vetch, is found.  Ref; http://butterfly-conservation.org/1313-779/small-blue.html

A Common Carpet Moth

 Another day-flying moth; the Burnet Companion

 By comparison, an enormous Fox Moth.

See http://butterfly-conservation.org/1034-1349/fox-moth.html

A Small Copper

 A Small Tortoiseshell.

And a female Meadow Brown butterfly.