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- Orange-tip (pictured above) Description: Greenish-white when first laid, but turn bright orange in a few days. Where: Eggs are laid beneath the calyx or on a stalk of cuckooflower, garlic mustard.
- Large white. Description: The yellow skittle-shaped eggs are laid directly on the food plant (rather than on top of other eggs) in batches of 40 to 100 eggs, resulting in an organised egg mass.
- Brimstone. Description: Although several eggs may be found together, this is either the result of different females, or the same female revisiting the same spot.
- Speckled wood. Description: The spherical eggs are very light green in colour are laid singly, sometimes in pairs, on the underside of a leaf of the foodplant.
Feb 22, 2024 · The eggs of the Viceroy Butterfly are a study in subtlety, with their pale green or yellow hue. They are laid individually, often at the tip of a host plant leaf, signaling the beginning of a new lifecycle.
May 5, 2020 · Found a fragment of eggshell? Here's a quick illustrated guide to the common UK bird eggs too help you find out which species it's from.
- Song Thrush
- House Sparrow
- Blackbird
- Robin
- Great Tit
- Coal Tit
- Dunnock
- Starling
- Wren
Nest:Makes a neat nest of twigs and grass, cemented with mud, lined with moss, rotten wood or dun, set low in a hedge or ivy thicket. Eggs:Lays 3-6 cool-blue eggs, usually strongly mottled with messy brown flecks. 25-28mm long.
Nest:Makes a nest of dry grass, string and feathers in any hole or niche on a building, in a creeper thicket, dense hedge or buried deep in conifer foliage. Eggs:Lays 3-7 very pale bluish or off-white eggs, irregularly stippled with brown, usually denser at the rounded end. 21-22mm long.
Nest:Builds a low nest in hedges, bushes or ivy, similar to those of a thrush, but with more moss mixed with the mud, and a dry grass lining. Eggs:Lays 3-5 mottled brown on pale-blue eggs, sometimes unmarked. 27-31mm long.
Nest:Famous for nesting in any hollow in a steep bank, creeper thicket, hedge or fallen flowerpot at the back of a shed. Nests are a mess of dead leaves and moss, lined with feathers and hair. Eggs:Lays 3-9 beige-to-white eggs, clear or flecked with brown. 20-21mm long.
Nest:Makes nests in tree holes, nest boxes or very thick hedges, mostly made of moss and fine grass, lined with a dense layer of hair and down. Eggs:Lays 5-11 dirty-white eggs, flecked with brown, often more stippled at the rounded end. 17-18mm long.
Nest:Nests near or on the ground, in a hole in a steep bank or tree stump. Looks similar to a great tit's nest (above). Eggs:Lays 5-14 pure-white, brown stippled or heavily large-flecked eggs. 14-15mm long.
Nest:Chooses a nest site low down in hedges, ivy or evergreens. Builds a rough nest, with an outer frame of twigs and grass, neatly lined with moss, hair or wool. Eggs:Lays 3-6 cool-blue unspotted eggs. 17-18mm long.
Nest:Makes loose colonial groups of nests in trees, cliffs or roof spaces. These are large untidy masses of twigs and grass built by the male but lined by the female with feathers, moss, wool and leaves. Eggs:Lays 4-9 clear blue/green eggs. 18-19mm long.
Nest:In a dense ivy or thicket, roof thatch or holes in old buildings. Builds a neatly domed, globular nest of moss, grass and dead leaves, lined with feathers, with a small entry hole at side. Eggs:Lays 3-11 off-white eggs, usually with a halo of stipple at the rounded end. 13-16mm long.
Lime butterflies mud-puddling with common emigrants (Catopsilia pomona) in India. This butterfly is an avid mud-puddler and visitor of flowers. It basks with its wings held wide open on tufts of grass and herbs, and generally keeps within a metre of the ground, even on cloudy days. It relies on its quick flight for escape. [15]
The aim is to illustrate the beauty and variety amongst the eggs, larvae, pupae and adult stages of Butterflies and Moths and to help with the identification of species found in the U.K. and Northern Europe. To view the pictures available so far click on one of the indexes below:-
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9 common bird eggs to identify - Countryfile.com
