Visited by a Red Admiral while we learned about butterflies. Huge thanks to Steve Bolton Butterfly Conservation 🦋 for a great workshop in Bunhill Fields #RewildLondon @ldn_environment London Wildlife Trust City of London Bunhill Heritage

🦋BUTTERFLY WALK #WarrenFarmNR🦋We’re excited to celebrate day 1 of the #BigButterflyCount Fri 12th July with friends BC_HertsMiddx Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Brent River Park🦋🥰Led by naturalist Neil Anderson, come join our FREE fun citizen science event here👉🏼tinyurl.com/WFNRButterflyW… 💚

Holly Blue had another good summer in 2023, with numbers up 66% on 2022, in keeping with its longer-term #BigButterflyCount trend of a 41% increase 🦋📈 This delicate blue butterfly has expanded where it lives across the UK by 34%, increasingly spreading northward into Scotland.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it. Over 100 children from Kingsmead School E9 & Mandeville School primary schools are learning about pollinators and helping plant for them. With Big City Butterflies Gardening Together & ecoACTIVE.

We’ve partnered with Big City Butterflies again to hold this fun and educational workshop; get creative and learn more about butterflies 🦋 Free tickets: tickettailor.com/events/sustain…

The #BigButterflyCount 2024 is officially here! 🦋 Our butterflies and moths need our help more than ever. This is why we are urging everyone to get out for the Count to help us conserve them. 💚 Download our free app and ID guide today 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

Amazing to see 13 butterfly species at Shrewsbury Park today including 📷 of mating Ringlets, Marbled White and Large Skipper. Relaxed mowing over last 5 years has seen many more butterflies here with over 1000 Meadow Browns counted on last years monitoring transect. 👏

It's been a wonderful year of collaboration between Butterfly Conservation 🦋 and Roots and Shoots! Here are some highlights from FlourishFest 🌼 and behind-the-scenes of creating the beautiful 'Kaleidoscope of Butterflies' sculpture 🦋 Made possible with funding by The National Lottery Heritage Fund London & South

Meet the ultimate #BigButterflyCount comeback kid 🦋 The Comma declined severely in the 20th century but has since bounced back. It is now widespread in southern Britain with its range expanding northwards. Get out for the Count today 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

12 macro moth species recorded at event today at Abney Park Cemetery including this August Thorn whose foodplant is oak, also Pale Prominant and Dunbar. Thanks to Abney Park Trust for organising. Monthly moth surveys are planned to record species at different times of year.

The #BigButterflyCount is a super fun, easy summer activity for the kids to get involved with ☀️🍃 All you need is 15 minutes outdoors with a free butterfly ID guide or the app, counting the butterflies you see 👉 bigbutterflycount.org 📷: Big City Butterflies #SummerHolidays

The new butterfly garden at Beckton Park is looking amazing thanks to Newham London 💙. Variety of flowers and shrubs provide nectar, foodplants and shelter. Small White's recorded nectaring on Verbena. Great place to relax and connect with nature! Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Local residents joined us and community gardening group Urban Growth for #BigButterflyCount in Kennington Park in Lambeth Council. 11 butterflies/6 species recorded in flower rich gardens and long grass meadow inc this Meadow Brown also Speckled Wood and Gatekeeper.

Thank you Barking and Dagenham Council for a fantastic #OneBoroughFestival! We loved meeting so many local families today and seeing your butterfly mask creations 🦋 We saw a red admiral and speckled wood for our #BigButterflyCount 🙌

As we enter the final week of the #BigButterflyCount, an incredible 52,778 of you have got out for the Count across the UK 🎉🦋 The Meadow Brown is still firmly in the lead, followed by the Gatekeeper. Let's make this last week Count! 💚 📷: Miles Attenborough

Managed to catch up with one of the more charismatic yet elusive residents of Beckenham Place Park last night. The Purple Hairstreak. Trudging all around the end of oak branches in search of a spot to egg lay. Beckenham Place Park Ranger Big City Butterflies Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

This Long-tailed Blue has been spotted near Shrewsbury Park in Greenwich. Its a rare migrant and summer-breeding species, but unable to overwinter in the UK. Only 5 other records on iRecord this year in southern England. 📷John Denton 👉bit.ly/3yBsMS0 Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

Missing the Big Butterfly Count already? Good news! You can help butterflies and moths year-round by recording your sightings through one of our other recording and monitoring schemes. 🦋📱 Find the right scheme for you 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/re… 📷: Tamás Nestor

First record for Brown Hairstreak in LB Hackney added on iRecord from Allens Gardens! Great to see more records popping up indicating this priority species is spreading into inner London. The site is near a railway line which could be used as a habitat pathway. Stock 📷 Adam Gor

Making hay while the sun shone today on the Rouel Road Estate where the mounds are being managed as mini-meadows. After scarification, we'll shortly be sowing perennial wildflowers which should bloom next spring and summer. Big City Butterflies Southwark Council