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The butterfly garden

    

 

image: Painted lady
      
See if you can spot any of these common British butterflies in your garden.

 

            

 

image: Red admiral
    

Painted Lady (above):

Generally orange wings with black and white tips

     
 
image: Peacock butterfly

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Animals and colour vision
Packaging
Fashion and colour
Red Admiral:

Wings mainly black with some red and white
       
Peacock (left):

Red/brown wings with distinctive peacock eye pattern