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Butterflies

July 2024

  • A peacock butterfly

    Butterflywatch
    Where have all Britain’s garden butterflies gone?

  • A large white butterfly sitting on a yellow flower

    ‘Warning sign to us all’ as UK butterfly numbers hit record low

  • A small heath butterfly resting on a grass panicle

    Country diary
    Country diary: An alarmingly bad day searching for butterflies

  • Tony Juniper

    Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important

    Tony Juniper

  • As British butterflies head north, scientists ask public to help track migration

  • Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: Jersey tiger moth heads north as climate heats up

  • ‘Not just for fuddy-duddies’: interest in moths booming as species struggle

June 2024

  • Meadow grass flowers © Maria Nunzia @Varvera

    Country diary
    Country diary: The grass is up – and so is the pollen count

  • A cabbage white caterpillar on a nasturtium flower. They’re keen on brassicas, says David Cordingley.

    Brief letters
    All cabbage whites great and small – oh lord, gardeners hate them all

  • An image taken from a video released by the Just Stop Oil climate campaign group shows activists spraying orange powder paint at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

    Brief letters
    Get mad about the continuing use of oil, not harmless orange powder paint

  • Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, launches manifesto on 17 June

    Brief letters
    Imagine there’s no Farage, it’s easy if you try

May 2024

  • A butterfly with charcoal, cream, blue and red wings feeds on a pink flower in a meadow

    Butterflywatch
    Butterflywatch: swallowtail emerges again in Norfolk despite winter floods

    UK’s largest butterfly remains very vulnerable after worst summer since scientific counting began
  • A brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.

    Young country diary
    Young country diary: Biking along with a brimstone

    East Sussex: I gripped my handlebars tight, pedalling quickly, trying to catch this butterfly with its fascinating yellow colour
  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

    The age of extinction
    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

    Trust aims to boost colonies of small pearl-bordered fritillaries by planting 20,000 violets for their caterpillars in Shropshire Hills

April 2024

  • A chequered skipper butterfly in long grass.

    Letting grass grow long boosts butterfly numbers, UK study proves

    Analysis of 600 gardens shows wilder lawns feed caterpillars and create breeding habitat
  • Butterfly Tale.

    Butterfly Tale review – kids insect story wants to take long trip south to Mexico

    Anodyne children’s picture provides some gentle entertainment once you forgive the cloying anthropomorphism

    • UK invertebrate of the year
      ‘A glittering new world of intrigue’: the rich stories Britain’s insects have to tell

    • UK invertebrate of the year
      A very British butterfly: spectacular swallowtail is built for capricious summers

    • Butterfly study finds sharpest fall on record for small tortoiseshell in England

March 2024

  • A person in an orange helmet and hi-vis vest stands holding climbing ropes on a cliff, with hottentot fig on one side and sea the below behind

    Lizard peninsula recovery project aims to save ‘microhabitats’

    Natural England-backed scheme at most southerly tip of UK will nurture lichens, liverworts and wildflowers
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