Create your own pipe-cleaner bee or butterfly! Download the PDF below, print it out, colour in your bee or butterfly, cut it out and attach your pipe-cleaners! Et voila, your own pipe-cleaner bee or butterfly!
Species on the Edge pipe-cleaner bee and butterfly PDF
Why not model your creation after a ‘species on the edge’? Here’s some inspiration:
Bees
Great yellow bumblebee
Great yellow bumblebees are a large bee covered in yellow hairs with a black band on its thorax.
Moss carder bumblebee ssp. agricolae
The moss carder bumblebee ssp. agricolae (also known as the Shetland bumblebee) has a bright orange thorax and a yellow bottom.
Northern Colletes
The northern colletes has fox coloured hair on its head and thorax and has a a black abdomen with a white band on each segment.
Butterflies
Northern brown argus
The northern brown argus butterfly is dark chocolaty brown in colour with orange crescents towards the outer edges of the wings. The male has less or no orange crescents on the upperwing. In Scotland, it has a white dot on its forewings.
Small blue
The small blue is the UK’s smallest butterfl. Male small blues tend to be dark grey black with a hint of silvery/blue at the base of its wings. Females are much browner in colour with no sign of blue.
Marsh fritillary
The marsh fritillary is a brightly coloured butterfly, with a mosaic of orange, yellow, and brown markings on the upper surface of both the forewings and hindwings, which form distinct rows of the same colour. There is a prominent row of small black spots towards the outer edge of each hindwing.
