Meadow Brown Butterfly Eggs | Slide Mouse

The eggs are laid singly on blades of grass poa annua and other species.

Meadow brown butterfly eggs. 1a 1b it is dark brown in colour with yellow fringed eyespots on the forewings and hindwings. Description of egg larva and pupa. There are from twenty to twenty four longitudinal keels all originating from a ridge or rib encircling the micropyle and passing over the flattened top which has in all three ribs encircling it they turn abruptly over the. The best way to identify the brown butterflies is by looking at the eyespots on their wings.

The female lays eggs on meadow grasses such as cock s foot and scutch grass. Meadow brown butterfly egg and life cycle. The meadow brown is as its names suggests largely brown with an orange patch on each forewing surrounding a black eye spot with a single white spot like the light reflected in the pupil of an eye. The larvae hatch after about 14 days.

The meadow brown has a single brood with adults having an extended flight period. Its name is derived from these. The egg is very small in comparison to the size of the butterfly measuring only 0 50 mm. Color whitish green inclining to brownish yellow as it matures and marked with purplish brown.

The combination of its relatively large size orange patches on the forewings only one eyespot on the forewing and none at all on the hindwings is unique to the meadow. However from the end of august onwards the females who have aestivated during the hottest days of summer reappear and begin to lay their eggs in grassy areas. The larval foodplants are a wide variety of grasses such as fescues meadow grass couch cock s foot and false broom. Eggs are laid either singly on the larval foodplant or dropped in flight.

The ringlet aphantopus hyperantus or fáinneog in irish is a common butterfly and can be found this month in all parts of the country. Both the summit and base are flat the shape being a truncated cone. The eggs are spherical straw coloured with reddish blotches. High and about the same in width.

The egg laid on a blade of grass as shown plate 85 is upright and ribbed. The top is flattened with an impressed ring thereon. They are laid singly on or amongst grasses sometimes glued to stems or grass blades but often just dropped into the vegetation by perching females. Unusually for a butterfly species there are distinct differences between the.