UK Butterflies

Building a Community of Responsible Butterfly Enthusiasts in Britain & Ireland

Species Gaps for Stage: larva

Swallowtail (5 instars)

Family: Hesperiidae

Chequered Skipper (5 instars)

Dingy Skipper (5 instars)

Essex Skipper (5 instars)

Grizzled Skipper (5 instars)

Large Chequered Skipper (5 instars)

Large Skipper (7 instars)

Lulworth Skipper (5 instars)

Silver-spotted Skipper (5 instars)

Small Skipper (5 instars)

Family: Pieridae

Bath White (5 instars)

Berger's Clouded Yellow (5 instars)

Black-veined White (5 instars)

Brimstone (5 instars)

Clouded Yellow (5 instars)

Cryptic Wood White (4 or 5 instars)

Green-veined White (5 instars)

Large White (5 instars)

Orange-tip (5 instars)

Pale Clouded Yellow (6 instars)

Small White (5 instars)

Wood White (4 or 5 instars)

Family: Nymphalidae

American Painted Lady (5 instars)

Camberwell Beauty (5 instars)

Comma (5 instars)

Dark Green Fritillary (6 instars)

Gatekeeper (5 instars)

Glanville Fritillary (7 instars)

Grayling (5 instars)

Heath Fritillary (7 instars)

High Brown Fritillary (6 instars)

Large Heath (5 instars)

Large Tortoiseshell (5 instars)

Marbled White (4 instars)

Marsh Fritillary (6 instars)

Meadow Brown (6 instars)

Monarch (5 instars)

Mountain Ringlet (6 instars)

Painted Lady (5 instars)

Peacock (5 instars)

Pearl-bordered Fritillary (5 instars)

Purple Emperor (5 instars)

Queen of Spain Fritillary (5 instars)

Red Admiral (5 instars)

Ringlet (5 instars)

Scarce Tortoiseshell (5 instars)

Scotch Argus (4 instars)

Silver-washed Fritillary (5 instars)

Small Heath (5 instars)

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (5 instars)

Small Tortoiseshell (5 instars)

Speckled Wood (4 instars)

Wall (4 instars)

White Admiral (5 instars)

Family: Riodinidae

Duke of Burgundy (4 instars)

Family: Lycaenidae

Adonis Blue (5 instars)

Black Hairstreak (4 instars)

Brown Argus (5 instars)

Brown Hairstreak (4 instars)

Chalk Hill Blue (5 instars)

Common Blue (5 instars)

Green Hairstreak (4 instars)

Holly Blue (4 instars)

Large Blue (4 instars)

Large Copper (4 instars)

Long-tailed Blue (4 instars)

Mazarine Blue (5 instars)

Northern Brown Argus (5 instars)

Purple Hairstreak (4 instars)

Short-tailed Blue (4 instars)

Silver-studded Blue (4 instars)

Small Blue (4 instars)

Small Copper (5 instars)

White-letter Hairstreak (4 instars)