Photographs of British wildlife: mammals, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies and insects.
RELATED GALLERIES: Birds - Marine Life - Farm Animals
Common carder bumblebee -
Bombus pascuorum
Length: 1.3cm / Mar - Nov.
Common carder bumblebee feeding on devilsbit scabious.
White-tailed bumblebee - Bombus lucorum.
To 2cm: March - November
White-tailed bumblebee on marjoram.
Buff-tailed bumblebee - Bombus terrestris.
Length 2cm / Mar - Aug
Buff-tailed bumblebee on a chive flower.
Speckled wood butterfly - Pararge aegeria.
Wingspan: 4.6-5.6cm / Mar-Oct.
Speckled wood on hawthorn
Small heath butterfly - Coenonympha pamphilus
Wingspan: 3.3-3.7cm / Apr-Sept
Small heath butterfly on a dandelion seed head
Red admiral butterfly - Vanessa atalanta
Wingspan: 6.4-7.8cm / Jan - Dec
Red admiral butterfly on apple mint.
Red admiral butterfly - Vanessa atalanta
Wingspan: 6.4-7.8cm / Jan - Dec
Red admiral butterfly on apple mint.
Painted lady butterfly - Vanessa cardui
Wingspan 5.4 - 7.4cm. Apr-Oct
Painted lady butterfly on ragwort.
Green-veined white butterfly - Pieris napi
Wingspan: 4.0-5.2cm / Apr-Oct.
Green-veined white butterfly on pignut
Small skipper butterfly - Thymelicus sylvestris
Wingspan.27 - 34mm / Jul-Aug
Small skipper butterfly on betony
Roe deer - Capreolus capreolus.
Length: 1-1.3m To shoulder 60-75cm / Jan - Dec.
Roe deer in a field in the Lune Valley.
Fallow deer - Dama dama
Length: 1.3-1.8m. To shoulder 0.5-1.2m. Jan-Dec.
Fallow deer in woodland near Hawes.
Red fox - Vulpes vulpes
Length: 62-72cm Tail: 40cm / Jan-Dec.
Fox hunting on a hillside near Ingleton.
Red fox - Vulpes vulpes
Length: 62-72cm Tail: 40cm / Jan-Dec.
Fox hunting on a hillside near Ingleton.
Frog spawn - The eggs of the common frog.
Found in shady ponds from the end of February through March.
Common frog - Rana temporaria
Length: 8-13cm / Feb - Oct
The common frog can be brown, green, red or yellow.
Lizard - Zootoca vivipara
10 - 15 cm / Mar - Oct.
Common lizard at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve
Ermine moth caterpillars in a hedgerow web.
From May - June spider-like webs in hedgerows can be a common sight, but the webs are made by small ermine moths to protect their eggs and caterpillars.
Northern eggar moth caterpillar - Lasiocampa quercus
The northern eggar is the northern form of the oak eggar.
Northern eggar caterpillar on Casterton Fell.
Wood mouse - Field mouse - Long-lailed mouse - Apodemus sylvaticus
8-10cm plus tail / Jan-Dec
Wood mouse nest building.
Large black slug - Arion ater.
9-14cm / Jan-Dec.
Large black slug on a hybrid orchid (northern marsh with common spotted)
Red squirrel - Sciurus vulgaris
Length 18-24cm Tail: 17-18cm / Jan - Dec
Red squirrel in woodland at Garsdale.
Red squirrel - Sciurus vulgaris
Length 18-24cm Tail: 17-18cm / Jan - Dec
Red squirrel in woodland at Garsdale.
Red squirrel - Sciurus vulgaris
Length 18-24cm Tail: 17-18cm / Jan - Dec
Red squirrel in woodland at Garsdale.
Grey squirrel - Sciurus carolinensis.
Length 24-29 cm Tail 19.5-24cm / Jan - Dec.
Grey squirrel eating.
Grey squirrel - Sciurus carolinensis.
Length 24-29 cm Tail 19.5-24cm / Jan - Dec.
Grey squirrel on a feeder.