purple emperor
apatura iris latin

It is the most magnificent of all our butterflies: the purple emperor.

Among the species found here is the Purple Emperor butterfly.

It is named for its similarity to the Purple Emperor butterfly.

The purple emperor butterfly had a good start but the strong winds in July seriously depleted its numbers.

The purple emperor has declined in abundance but increased in occurrence by 135%.

Of the forest's 34 species of butterfly, the most spectacular, the purple emperor, can be hard to see.

The purple emperor species are found nearby.

Freyer's purple emperor has dark wings with reddish and yellow bands.

Among the butterflies are purple emperors and silver-washed fritillaries.

"It was the Purple Emperor who denounced you!

Apart from – perhaps – the purple emperor, it is the only British butterfly which can match tropical species for striking appearance.

Some, like the wonderful purple emperor of the British oak woods, are also partial to a sip of corpse juice.

Scarce butterflies such as White Admiral and Purple Emperor are also present.

Freyer's purple emperor usually inhabits forests and is often found nearby rivers and streams.

There are also fears the turbines could endanger a rare species of bat called the Barbastelle and the purple emperor butterfly.

"In spite of the Purple Emperor, the Red Admiral, and the gendarmes?"

One butterfly I had longed to find since childhood was the purple emperor - very scarce and frequenting the highest branches of oak trees.

Like the purple emperor this butterfly uses 'master trees', usually European ash Fraxinus excelsior.

Lord Felmet's fascination was to him what a pin is to a Purple Emperor. '

"He doesn't," replied the Purple Emperor angrily.

One possible brief sighting of a Purple Emperor yesterday (late afternoon) down ride from West carpark.

She pointed specifically to the city copper butterfly in Europe and the purple emperor butterfly in Sweden.

The only thing missing in Bentley Wood was a purple emperor, the supreme prize, which I and three butterfly-fancying friends had gone there to seek.

It was a Purple Emperor, the rarest butterfly in all England, whose home was normally high above the trees.

For a long time I had refused to believe that any tie of blood linked this dainty blue-eyed creature with the Purple Emperor.