Sussex provides localities of many of our British butterflies and moths. Among the butterflies may be mentioned most of the 'fritilliaries', the 'grayling', 'ringlets', 'skippers', and 'blues'; many beautiful and rare varieties of our ' chalk hill blue' occur with great frequency. 

The lovely ' adonis blue' abounds in its haunts. 

 

 

 

The 'Marbled White' is also in abundance in its favourite localities on the Downs. 
These by no means exhaust the list. ' Clouded yellows' and the rare ' bath white' favour us, but ' Camberwell beauty' and the ' milkweed butterflies' do not seem to appreciate Sussex.

 

Most of the hawk moths are found, and that rare migrant ' 'livornica', the striped hawk moth', seems to turn up fairly regularly. 

 

 

 

Excellent grounds for 'sugaring' abound; entomologists in Sussex are numerous and well informed.

 

The Booth Museum in the Dyke Road, Brighton, in addition to possessing the world-famous collection of British birds, formed by the late E. T. Booth, has also massive collections of world butterflies and noteworthy collections of birds' eggs.

 

 

 

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