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Small heath
The Small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
Bewildering butterflies
Struggling to tell between small and large whites? Can't get your head around holly blues and common blues? Our butterfly guide can help.
Managing a Wilder Garden - Butterflies
Join us for an online presentation on Managing a Wilder Garden for Butterflies, Moths, and their Caterpillars.
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Abberton Home Education Insects & Invertebrates
This is a themed drop-off home education session for age 8+
EECOS calendar
Distributions of Essex butterflies have changed dramatically in Essex in recent years
Butterfly Seekers campaign reveals the need for more people to record sightings of butterflies in Essex.
Monthly Wildlife Walk
A walk to look for flowers, butterflies and birds.
Monthly Wildlife Walk
A walk to look for flowers, butterflies and birds.
Wildlife
Small skipper
Often found basking on tall grasses, or buzzing between stems, the small skipper is a small, orange butterfly. It prefers rough grassland, verges and woodland edges.