Pearly Heath
Coenonympha arcania
The butterfly usually sits with its wings closed, revealing the broad white band and the row of white-pupilled eyespots on the hindwing underside. When basking it tilts sideways so that the underside of its wings faces the sun directly.
- Group
- Brush-footed Butterflies
- Photos
- 1
- Taken
- 2020
Profile: Pearly Heath
- Family
- Brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae)
- Wingspan
- approx. 28–35 mm
- Habitat
- Sunny, open woodland and woodland edges as well as scrubby, dry grassland; up to about 1,800 m altitude.
- Diet
- The caterpillars feed on grasses such as Yorkshire fog and sheep’s fescue.
- When to see
- One generation a year, flying roughly from mid-May to mid-August, mainly in June and July.
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