Search Results for: Marbled White

Two Marbled Whites - top one (pale brown and cream coloured) is a female and the lower one (off white and black) a male

Marbled Whites. Photo: Lorraine Munns

Lorraine sent in this photo taken at Ballard Down on 28/06/2025 telling us:

I was quite pleased to get this photo on my phone. The Marbled Whites were too distracted to notice me creeping up on them.

Editor’s Note: the top one (pale brown and cream coloured) is a female and the lower one (off white and black) a male

Striking white and black butterfly on a purple scabious flower

Marbled White Sue East

Sue says:

Today, 18/06/2025 I saw the first Marbled White we have seen in our Hinton St Mary garden since moving here 7 years ago – great to see this in a year that to date in our garden has produced the fewest number of species and actual butterflies since we moved here.

Brown and orange butterfly deep in the undergrowth

Wall Brown. Photo: Shona Refoy 2024

Two white and black butterflies clinging to a flower to mate

Marbled White. Photo: Shona Refoy

Shona says:

I went for a walk in the Worth Matravers area on Tuesday (6 August).

One of the first butterflies I saw was this Wall Brown female, ovipositing in the undergrowth, just outside the village. In the photo, you can see the egg emerging from the tip of her abdomen, being laid on a tiny piece of grass.

And I thought that the Marbled White season was pretty much over – these two had other ideas!

I saw them by the coast path between Seacombe and Winspit.

Two creamy white butterflies with black markings

Marbled Whites. Photo: Penny Hawes

A brown butterfly with a hint of blue and black, white and orange markings

Common Blue (female). Photo: Penny Hawes

Penny sent in these photos telling us:

I’m back in Portland today, 17/07/2024 – mating Marbled Whites at Perryfields and a female Common Blue.  I searched at Perryfields, Tout and High Angle Battery for Chalkhills, but didn’t find any.