Common wood-nymph

The common wood-nymph is a medium brown satyr, its forewings marked with two large eyespots often set in a broad yellow patch. It bobs low through tall-grass meadows and open woods across the continent.

It flies in a single long summer brood, gliding and dipping among the grasses and pausing at flowers and sap.

Caterpillars feed on grasses and overwinter tiny, without feeding, so a patch of unmown native grass supports them.