Large skipper butterfly (Ochlodes venata )
Introduction
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Large skipper butterfly (Ochlodes venata )
Image: © Keith Edkins Taken: 11 Jul 2002
Photographed on the closed St Ives railway line, which at the time acted as a "green corridor" into Cambridge. Sadly (from a wildlife point of view) it is now being reopened as a guided busway. The European Large Skipper is sometimes classified as Ochlodes faunus or O. sylvanus.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.232292
Longitude
0.139366