Life Cycles of British and Irish Butterflies

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What can I say that hasn’t been said already? Phenomenal, simple phenomenal. I cannot begin to imagine the work that has gone into it. The quality of the images is amazing! This is a book that will find its place alongside the great historical volumes.”– essexbuzzard, UK Butterflies forums

Having heard of its publication last year, it was with great excitement that I opened up a copy of Peter Eeles's Life Cycles of British & Irish Butterflies when it arrived on my desk recently.Bulman, C.R. (2001) Conservation biology of the Marsh Fritillary butterfly Euphydryas aurinia. PhD thesis.

Warren, M. S. (1987) The ecology and conservation of the heath fritillary butterfly, Mellicta athalia, Journal of Applied Ecology, 24, 467-513. Bourn, N.A.D. & Thomas, J.A. (1993) The Ecology and Conservation of the Brown Argus Butterfly Aricia Agestis in Britain, Biological Conservation, 63, 67-74. O’Neill, J. & Montgomery, I. (2018) Demographics and spatial ecology in a population of Cryptic Wood White butterfly Leptidea juvernica in Northern Ireland, Journal of Insect Conservation, 22, 499-510. This week I’m speaking to butterfly expert Peter Eeles. If you’re interested in encouraging more butterflies into your garden and you’d like to know what plants to grow to encourage them, we discuss how you can be a better gardener for butterflies and it doesn’t stop at growing some buddleia! Peter is the author of the book Life Cycles of British & Irish Butterflies. The book is THE definitive guide to UK butterflies and documents the different life stages from adults down to the smallest eggs.Schoonhoven, L.M., Beerling, E.A.M., Klijnstra, J.W. & Vugt, Y. van (1990) Two related butterfly species avoid oviposition near each other’s eggs, Experientia, 46, 526-528.

Absolutely wonderful. Congratulations on such a brilliant book. Such a lot of work, but such a fantastic result.”– Debbie Cooper, Facebook Nelson, B., Hughes, M., Nash, R. & Warren, M. (2001) Leptidea reali Reissinger 1989 (Lep.: Pieridae): a butterfly new to Britain and Ireland, The Entomologist’s Record and Journal of Variation, 113, 97-101. My copy arrived a couple of days ago… Magnificent! I am sure we are all thankful for the massive effort you have put in to this work.”– Paul Harfield, UK Butterflies Forums

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Wiklund, C. (1977) Courtship Behaviour in Relation to Female Monogamy in Leptidea sinapis, Oikos, 29, 275-283. Brereton, T.M. (1997) Ecology and conservation of the butterfly Pyrgus malvae (Grizzled Skipper) in south-east England. PhD thesis.

Not since that lepidopteran legend F.W. Frohawk studied and etched them nearly one hundred years ago have all the stages in the life cycles of all of Britain and Ireland's butterflies been illustrated in one volume. No mean feat!" The Field Club completed its survey and 2014 was the final year of the five year cycle of 2010 to 2014. The identification chart Guide to the Butterflies of Ireland has been revised with a number of changes. Dinca, V., Lukhtanov V. A., Talavera, G. & Vila, R. (2011) Unexpected layers of cryptic diversity in wood white Leptidea butterflies, Nature Communications, 324.

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Would just like to say I received it this morning and I can’t put it down! It’s truly a masterpiece! Anyone and everyone should have a copy! What you’ve done is make me appreciate all the life stages of the butterfly not just the usual adult winged form! A book I will treasure forever.”– Nicola Main, UK Butterflies forums So excited to find this in the post! A beautiful piece of work by Peter Eeles. I hope eventually there will be the Life Cycles of British and Irish Moths!”– Will Hone-Millard García-Barros, E. (2000) Egg size in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperiidae): a summary of data, The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, 35, 90-136.