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UK
/fɹˈɪtɪləɹi/
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NOUN
- any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria having nodding variously colored flowers
- butterfly with brownish wings marked with black and silver
How To Use fritillary In A Sentence
- • Wood white: up 600% since 2009, following major decline• Marsh fritillary: up 134%, after major decline• Common blue: up 146%• Brown argus: up 85%• Silver-spotted skipper: up 78%• Lulworth skipper: down 40%, worst ever year since records began• Meadow brown: down 20%, worst ever year• Essex skipper: down 33%, second worst year in scheme• Small skipper: down 17%• Wall brown: down 20%It was an ordinary school playing field until the diggers moved in. Butterfly revival could be threatened by cuts, warns charity
- Match the artsy underwing of the pearl-bordered fritillary with the breathtaking views from the Morecambe Bay Limestones, just below the Lake District. Are butterflies the UK's most beautiful endangered species? | Dan Flenley
- Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
- Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass; beautiful insects like marsh fritillary butterflies; and spectacular birds like hen harriers and short-eared owls.
- Conclusion:Retention time and affection time of aconite alkaloids after used with thunberg fritillary bulb omni-alkaloids were longer than these before matching.
- The marsh fritillary is an extremely variable butterfly, with 34 subspecies described from Europe alone.
- It was a silver-washed fritillary, the largest and most impressive of all the British fritillaries and one that has bucked the dismal trend and expanded its range after years of contraction. Country diary: Cosford Hall, Suffolk
- A silver-washed fritillary butterfly dipped between the tufts of grass to find the violet leaves on which she lays her eggs.
- The main cause for the decline of the regal fritillary is the loss of tallgrass prairie habitat.
- The site is also an important home for fritillary butterfly, including the rare and declining high brown and pearl-bordered fritillaries.