Brush Footed Butterfly Collection (page 3)

Aglais urticae and Inachis io
Small tortoiseshell and peacock butterflies. Pressed insects prepared by Leonard Plukenet, housed at the Natural History Museum, London

Papilio glaucus, Eastern tiger swallowtail
Plate from an album of unpublished watercolours of Lepidoptera by Eleazar Albin, 1720

Aglais urticae and Polygonia c-album, butterflies

Heliconius ricini
Butterflies (Heliconius ricini) feed on caster-oil plant (Ricinus communis). Plate 30 from Metamorphosis Insectorum (1705) by Maria Sybilla Merian

Purple Emperor by John Curtis (1791 - 1862) from British Entomology

Danaus plexippus, monarch butterfly
The monarch, also known as the milkweed is the largest butterfly found in the U.K. It is not a native butterfly, but is a rare visitor from the U.S.A

Comma, Polygonia c-album
Mounted specimens from the collections of The Natural History Museum

Bia actorian, South American butterfly wing
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the fore-wing of the South American butterfly (x 2500)

Danaus plexippus, monarch caterpillar
The stripy caterpillar of the monarch butterfly feeding on a leaf. The monarch is the largest butterfly found in U.K but is not actually native

Sketch for The Natural History Museum, London
An rough architectural plan drawn by Richard Owen in 1859 entitled Idea of a Museum of Natural History. The plan was referred to by Alfred Waterhouse in the creation of the Natural History Museum

Inachis io (Linnaeus), peacock butterfly
A mounted specimen a peacock butterfly, family Nymphalidae from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London

Charaxes bernardus, tawny rajah
An illustrative plate from Insects of China by E. Donovan depicting tawny rajah butterflies

Butterfly lifecycle
Plate 109 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae, Frankfurdt 1622 by C. Flegel

Charles Badcock, gatekeeper, c. 1920
Charles Badcock, Police Constable no. 209, began work at the Museum in 1902, aged 43. In 1910 he joined the Museum staff as a front gatekeeper

Argynnis aglaja, dark green fritillary
From Illustrations of British Butterflies: with occasional figures of the larva, pupa, and food-plant (1878) by Theo Johnson

Maniola jurtina, meadow brown
Plate 15 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Arygynnis adippe, high brown fritillary

Aglais urticae, small tortoiseshell
Plate 26 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Argynnis adippe, high brown fritillary
Plate 29 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Erebia aethiops, scotch argus butterfly

Parthenos sylvia salentia, clipper butterfly

Handwritten notes by John Abbot
Handwritten notes to accompany Plate 34, 7 from Volume 16 by John Abbot. Illustration of Metitaea ismeria and Helianthus tracheliifolius

Argynnis paphia var. valezina, female silver washed fritilla
Plate 12, figure 22 from Natural History of British Butterflies Vol.1, c. 1914 by Frederick William Frohawk (1861-1946). Held in the Entomology Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Melanargia galathea, marbled white butterfly
Close-up of the wings of the Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea), native to most of Europe and North Africa

Siproeta stelenes, Malachite butterfly
The malachite butterfly is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green of the butterflys wings. It is found throughout the Southern United States to Brazil

Vanessa atalanta, red admiral
Photograph of a the upperside of mounted specimen of a female red admiral. Ranges from Europe and N. Africa to China and Japan, also N. America

Hypolimnas misippus, diadem butterfly
Photograph of a diadem butterfly (Hypolimnas misippus) collected from the South American and Old World Tropics

Nymphalis phalerati, silver spotted fritillary
An illustration of a Great American silver spotted fritillary butterfly and and may cock or flesh coloured passion flower by John Abbot (1751-1840)

Nymphalis antiopa, Camberwell beauty
An illustration of a mourning cloak or Camberwell beauty butterfly (upper and under side shown). Taken from Insects of Georgia by John Abbot (1751-1840)

Cethosia mietneri, Tamil lace wing butterfly
Detail from plate 39 of Tamil lace wing butterflies from The Lepidoptera of Celyon by Frederic C. Moore (1830 -1907)

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