Butterfly Video & Slideshow Archive

Archive of butterfly videos and slideshows recorded from Hampshire and further afield aimed at capturing specific aspects of butterfly behaviour.

To view the butterfly videos you will require a media player on your computer compatible with windows media video (wmv) format, such as windows media player. The clips are designed for streaming via broadband connections of least 2 MB/s capacity.  For slower internet connections including dial-up, it may be better to download to your hard drive first (right click on link, then "save target as " in internet explorer) and launch from there.

 Butterfly Videos

Purple Emperor - Bentley Wood - 30 June 2009

Click here to view  (Windows Media, 11.5MB)

Pearl-bordered Fritillary - Pignal, New Forest - 27 April 2007

Click here to view  (Windows Media, 4.8MB)

White Admiral - Straits Inclosure, Alice Holt Forest - 7 July 2007

Click here to view  (Windows Media, 3.5MB)

 Swallowtail - Strumpshaw, Norfolk - 8 June 2008

Click here to view  (Windows Media, 4.7MB)

Brown Hairstreak - Shipton Bellinger, Hants - 30 August 2008

Click here to view  (Windows Media, 5.2MB)

 Butterfly Slideshows

Marsh Fritillary Courtship - Lankham Bottom, Dorset - 25 May 2006 

Click here to view  (Flash Object, 0.8MB)