Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.

Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.

Butterflies & Moths

September 2007 – Speckled Wood Butterfly – Pararge aegeria

Speckled wood butterflies have brown wings with creamy-yellow spots and a small dark eye spot near the tip of the upper wing. The lower wings have a row of dark brown eye spots. The wingspan is about 50mm.

August 2007 – Six-belted Clearwing Moth

Locally distributed in the southern half of Britain, this species inhabits chalky soils including downland, quarries and sea-cliffs.

July 2007 – Peacock Butterfly – Inachis io

The Peacock Butterfly gets its name from the similarity between the eye pattern on its wing and those on the Peacock’s tail feathers.

Butterfly Walk 1 July 2006

We held a Butterfly Walk in the Cemetery on 1 July, and Richard Smout took a small group for a walk lasting just over an hour and a half. Several species of butterflies were spotted, as well as some other insects of interest.