Butterfly species commonly found on the island include skippers, small coppers, wall and meadow browns and gatekeepers.

There were meadow browns, small skippers, and even painted ladies flitting among the tall flowering grasses on the canal bank, bending them over as they settled, knocking off the pollen in puffs of fine, yellow mist.

The Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina, is a butterfly found in the Palearctic ecozone.

Several butterflies, such as the wall (Lasiommata megera)and meadow brown (Maniola jurtina), also quickly build up breeding populations.

The Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina, is a butterfly found in European meadows, where its larvae feed on grasses.

Typical meadow butterflies include for Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina, Common Blue Polyommatus icarus, Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus, and the Marsh Fritillary Eurodryas aurinia.