taken 12 years ago, near to Tiptree Heath, Essex, England
Essex Skipper?
This skipper was clearly not a student of Linnaean taxonomy as it had refused to neatly comply with human classification. The tips of the antennae of a Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris should be distinctly orange while the antennae of the Essex Skipper
TL8814 : Tymelicus lineola? should look as if they had been dipped in black ink. You can see that this example on the linked photo had a tiny dot of orange on its substantially black antennae. Members of the Butterfly Conservancy
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TL8714 : Tiptree Heath could not make a positive identification. The reserve is managed by the Friends of Tiptree Heath
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