This area is noted for butterflies in the summer, and in August the purple hairstreak will be on the wing.

Badgers have excavated several setts and white letter and purple hairstreak butterflies are seen.

The reserve has a variety of butterfly species including white-letter hairstreak, purple hairstreak and common blue.

And there is the rush of discovering a painted lady or a question mark or a great purple hairstreak perched on a leaf or a milkweed.

The Spanish Purple Hairstreak (Laeosopis roboris) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family.

Amongst the numerous insects to be found are green and purple hairstreak butterflies, dark-bordered beauty moth, bog bush cricket and glow worm.

Butterflies such as the Orange Tip, Speckled Wood and Purple Hairstreak can be seen in the area in summer.

Brown Argus, White Admiral and Purple Hairstreak can also be spotted at Brampton Wood.

The great purple hairstreak, says Opler, is the only butterfly in the United States that feeds on American mistletoe, the Christmas mistletoe.

Twenty eight species of butterfly have been recorded including White-letter Hairstreak, Purple Hairstreak and Brown Argus.

Insects include many species of the parasitic Gall Wasp and the Purple Hairstreak butterfly, whose caterpillar is entirely dependent upon Oak trees.

The site also has a large variety of butterflies, such as the White Admiral (Limenitis camilla) and the Purple Hairstreak (Neozephyrus quercus).

Butterflies are attracted by the open rides and recordings including White Admiral, Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Purple Hairstreak.

Invertebrates are well recorded and include the purple hairstreak and Speckled Wood butterflies, several nationally scarce bees and wasps, and stag beetles.

The Indian Purple Hairstreak (Esakiozephyrus bieti) is a small butterfly found in India that belongs to the Lycaenids or Blues family.

The reserve supports butterflies such as Brown Argus, Small Copper, Marbled White and Purple Hairstreak; some 21 species have been recorded.

Notable butterflies on the site are the Silver-washed Fritillary, White Admiral (Limenitis camilla) and Purple Hairstreak.

The green hairstreak, purple hairstreak, hummingbird hawk-moth and ghost moth are sometimes seen, particularly in the woods at Holkham, along with the common butterfly and moth species.

Roe Deer and Purple Hairstreak butterflies can both be seen here, as well as the extremely rare pearl-bordered fritillary and the small pearl-bordered fritillary.

The Great Purple Hairstreak (Atlides halesus), also called the Great Blue Hairstreak, is a common gossamer-winged butterfly species in parts of the United States.

Specifically, the red cedar is a host plant for a variety of butterflies including the Great Purple Hairstreak, the Juniper Hairstreak and the Olive Hairstreak butterflies.

The grassy rises, meadows and open coppice areas are ideal for rarer butterflies including White Admiral, Purple Hairstreak, Silver-washed Fritillary, Dingy Skipper and Brown Argus.

These include herb paris, early purple orchid, lily of the valley, common bluebell, dog's mercury, purple hairstreak, meadowsweet, water avens, fleabane (common name for flowering plants in Asteraceae family) and meadow brown.

Butterflies are particularly notable including Common Blue, Brown Argus, Grizzled and Dingy Skipper, Green and Purple Hairstreak, and Dark Green Fritillary.

In the earlier half of the year (spring and summer), these are often popular sights: Grizzled Skipper, brown argus, purple hairstreak, eyebright, small scabious, kidney vetch, dingy, greyling, large thyme, marjoram autumn gentian and carline thistle.

The Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae distributed throughout much of Europe.

The site also has a large variety of butterflies, such as the White Admiral (Limenitis camilla) and the Purple Hairstreak (Neozephyrus quercus).

Favonius quercus (Linnaeus, 1758) is now Neozephyrus quercus North Africa, Europe and Asia Minor.