The Guardian12 Jun 2026Market
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The peacock butterfly, with its lavender, yellow and maroon eyespots and rusty red-and-black wings, topped Butterfly Conservation’s first favourite-butterfly poll of 60 native species, drawing over 20,000 votes. The top five were all common garden species: orange-tip in second, red admiral third, holly blue fourth, and brimstone fifth; Britain’s largest, the swallowtail, placed ninth, and the purple emperor fifteenth. All bottom-ten species were grey, brown, golden-brown or black-winged.