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Silver-spotted Skipper

Hesperia comma

About

A small golden-brown butterfly with distinctive silvery spots on the green underside of its hindwings. It is restricted to short, sun-baked chalk grassland.

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Did You Know?

It requires turf shorter than 5 cm and bare ground patches warmed by the sun for egg-laying.