Beautiful butterflies have been spotted thriving at the city’s first haven created especially for them.

Camera club snapper Rose Jones took a visit to the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven at Dorothy Stringer School in Brighton.

It was established in 2007 by Dan Danahar, an environmental science teacher, and has encouraged a range of species to the site, in Stringer Way.

A speckled wood A speckled wood (Image: Rose Jones)

Since its creation, the reserve, which is half the size of a football pitch, has become home to more than 30 species of butterfly.

Rose’s stunning pictures show an array of butterflies enjoying the blooming wildflowers at the site, including the meadow brown and speckled wood.

The butterflies are pictured feeding on colourful flowers or resting on leaves.

A butterfly and a beeA butterfly and a bee (Image: Rose Jones)

One snap caught a butterfly and a bee simultaneously collecting pollen and nectar from a flower.

Liz Williams recorded 97 wildflower species and ten species of grass in 2008, marking a huge increase in floral diversity the year after its creation.

The site was renamed to honour her work in 2011.

The site is utilised by the school's students The site is utilised by the school's students (Image: Rose Jones)

The nature haven is studied by Dorothy Stringer environmental science students and maintained by community volunteers, as well as sheep from the Sussex Wildlife Trust once a year.

Art, photography, geography and science students also visit the site during their classes and the site is accessible to the public.