Butterfly Conservation

Will you be switching off your lights at the office for #EarthHour tomorrow?💡 Find out how you can reduce light pollution at your workplace with our free guidance 👇 https://lnkd.in/eSE5DpNv #BiggestHourForEarth #MoonMeadows #MothsMatter

Looking like a butterfly at rest, the Early Thorn (Selenia dentaria) flies after dusk and is common and well distributed throughout the British Isles 🦋 The caterpillars feed on a variety of deciduous trees, including Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Hazel, Silver Birch, Alder and Sallows. 🐛 📷: Rachel Scopes, Les Evans-Hill, Patrick Clement #MothMonday #MothsMatter

Are you a PR pro with a flare for delivering successful media campaigns? 🦋📢 We're looking for an exceptional PR Campaigns Manager to deliver an exciting programme of campaigns this summer, including our Big Butterfly Count. This is a temporary role covering maternity leave until 30 September 2025. Find out if this role is for you 👉 https://lnkd.in/gDm896tG 📷: Brimstone - Matt Berry #Hiring #PRJobs #CharityJobs

Butterflies and moths in Scotland need our help 📢 Butterfly Conservation are joining Scottish Environment LINK to demand that the Natural Environment Bill sets strong, meaningful targets to help nature recover. Have your say at https://lnkd.in/eSFgBMWn #ScotlandLovesNature

The abundance of butterflies across the United States fell by an alarming 22% in just 20 years, a new study has concluded 📉 The results mirror the picture in the UK, where 80% of butterfly species have decreased in abundance, distribution or both since the 1970s. Butterfly Conservation Head of Science Richard Fox said: "These results from the US are hugely concerning, and help to prove that butterflies are declining across the whole world at an alarming rate. "As the authors of this paper point out, we already know the major causes of butterfly decline - habitat loss, climate change, and pesticide use. We sounded the alarm about butterfly declines 25 years ago, and that's why Butterfly Conservation is working with landowners across the UK to protect butterflies and moths, raising awareness about climate change and successfully campaigning for stricter regulation of dangerous pesticides." Read the full story 👇 https://lnkd.in/eJkSDZbB 📷: Danaus eresimus - Korall

Meet our Species of the Month, the charismatic Puss Moth! ✨ Scientific name 🔬: Cerura vinula Wingspan 📏: 45-70mm Flies 🦋: Between April and July “Puss Moths are incredible! The caterpillars look out of this world with their colourful markings which mimic a big face, and the adults are these super cute fluffy things with massive antennae – a weird and wonderful contrast.” – Pip Gray, Campaigns Officer Get to know this magnificent moth 👉 https://lnkd.in/e7-pvUhz 📷: Sophie Hall, Antony Wren, John Bebbington #MothsMatter

Our annual UK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting is just around the corner! These meetings provide a great opportunity to hear about progress with the Butterflies for the New Millennium recording scheme, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme and find out the latest developments in butterfly research and conservation. 📍 Where: Online 📅 When: Saturday 29 March See the full programme and book your place today 👉 https://lnkd.in/dxHTJv2X 📷: Silver-spotted Skipper - Mark Searle

Meet our third and final new ambassador, Indy Kiemel Greene! 👋 Indy is a well-known conservationist and wildlife advocate living on the edge of Sherwood Forest. Indy believes everyone should have the opportunity to learn about nature from a young age and wants to help Butterfly Conservation campaign for a better future for butterflies and moths. 🦋 We spoke to Indy about moth-munching Nightjars, the magnificent Small Copper, and following a fox 👉 https://lnkd.in/etsi_99q

Please join us in welcoming the second of our new ambassadors - Ajay Tegala! 🎉 Ajay is a conservationist, presenter, author and a ranger at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire. Ajay loves working with people and wildlife and wants to make butterflies and moths relatable to as many people as possible, as well as championing diversity in the conservation sector. 🦋 We spoke to Ajay about his first bird book, seeing butterflies flying over the sea, and moths that look like bird poo 👉 https://lnkd.in/gGy6zEaG

We are incredibly excited to have three wonderful new ambassadors joining Butterfly Conservation to help us push butterfly and moth conservation in the UK forward 📢 Over the next few days we'll be getting to know each of them, starting with Billy Heaney! Billy is a zoologist, wildlife tour guide, filmmaker, presenter and travel writer with a real passion for nature and the outdoors. He is keen to use his passion, skills and platform to help connect as many people as possible to the butterflies and moths around them. 🦋 We spoke to Billy about Free Willy, birding with his nan, and surfing lepidopterists 👉 https://lnkd.in/eMvHES9T