The White Admiral is a spectacular woodland butterfly, with white-banded black wings and a distinctive delicate flight: short periods of wing beats, followed by long glides.  Adults are often found nectaring on Bramble flowers in rides and clearings.  It is a fairly shade-tolerant butterfly, flying in dappled sunlight to lay eggs on Honeysuckle.  Population monitoring has shown a dramatic decline in the last 20 years for reasons that are as yet unclear.