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speckled wood in British Englishnouna common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots Examples of 'speckled wood' in a sentencespeckled wood The grass ---that comfortable bed on which Jerusha had lain down---was there in the middle of the door, a patch of lightly speckled wood.Speckled wood butterflies are now flying about in sunshine on the edge of woods.The speckled wood butterfly haunts woodland paths where some sunlight comes through.In the woods, the first speckled wood butterflies are out and about.During the past decade, some species including the peacock, comma, speckled wood and ringlet have continued to spread rapidly northwards in response to climate change.One butterfly that can be seen throughout the spring and summer is the speckled wood, which has continuous new broods.Along woodland paths, or alongside tall hedgerows, speckled wood butterflies flit between the sun and the shade.Sightings of the peacock and small tortoiseshell each fell by more than half, and red admirals and speckled wood butterflies were down by a quarter.Thinning, clearing and coppicing create the mosaic of habitats that nightingales and speckled wood butterflies love.We've been here, what, five minutes, and that's a comma, a large white, a poly blue and a speckled wood fluttering by! |