Essex Wildlife Trust, Abbotts Hall Farm, Gt Wigborough, Colchester, Essex CO5 7RZ
Food plants for butterfly and moth caterpillars
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Butterflies
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| Red admiral | Stinging nettle |
| Comma | Stinging nettle, hop, currant, gooseberry |
| Common blue | Birdsfoot-trefoil, common vetch and similar |
| Holly blue | Holly, ivy |
| Brimstone | Alder buckthorn, purging buckthorn |
| Meadow brown | Soft grasses |
| Small copper | Sorrel, dock |
| Gatekeeper | Soft grasses |
| Small heath | Soft grasses |
| Orange tip | Lady's smock, garlic mustard, dame's-violet |
| Painted lady | Thistles, burdock, nettles |
| Peacock | Stinging nettles |
| Large skipper | Cocksfoot, other grasses |
| Dingy skipper | Birdsfoot-trefoil, horseshoe vetch |
| Small skipper | Grasses |
| Ringlet | Grasses |
| Small tortoiseshell | Stinging nettles |
| Speckled wood | Grasses |
| Wall | Coarse grasses |
| Green-veined white | Lady's smock, dame's violet, garlic mustard, watercress |
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Moths
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| Burnet moth | Birdsfoot-trefoil, common vetch and similar |
| Cinnabar moth | Ragwort, groundsel |
| Elephant hawkmoth | Rosebay willowherb, clarkia, fuchsia |
| Lime hawkmoth | Lime |
| Eyed hawkmoth | Apple, willows |
| Poplar hawkmoth | Poplars, willows |
| Privet hawkmoth | Privet, lilac, ash |