purple emperor
Britishnoun
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Species NWT has helped recover in Norfolk include crane, bittern, purple emperor butterfly and natterjack toad.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
“We’ll never be totally sure if the purple emperor is responding to climate change, or changing woodland management practices, or whether people have been shoving them out the back of their cars.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
It’s widely accepted that he put the purple emperor back into Lincolnshire – but critics argue that the butterfly would have returned eventually.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
But White had some notable successes, particularly with butterfly species that lived in trees – black and brown hairstreaks, and the purple emperor.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 13, 2020
But in certain other tropical groups, and in some of our English butterflies, as the purple emperor, orange-tip, etc.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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