Missed this year's UK Butterfly Recorders’ Meeting?

All the brilliant talks from the day are now available to watch back on our YouTube channel! 🙌 Grab a cuppa and catch up here 👇
youtu.be/02Pc6VAZNhU

📷: Nick Edge
#UKBRM #SaveButterflies

This #MothMonday it's the turn of the tiger moths! 🐯

Look out for the spectacular Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) this month. The further south in the UK you get, the brighter these moths appear in colour!

🦋📸: Rob Blanken, Rachel Scopes
🐛📸: Ivan Lynas

#MothsMatter

Are you taking part in @Love_Plants' #NoMowMay ? 🌱🌼

Our recent study has proven that letting your grass grow long can boost butterfly numbers by up to 93%, with the biggest benefits found in urban areas and intensively farmed landscapes!

Read more 👇
butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/…

The full paper of our recent study on the butterfly benefits of having long grass and flowering ivy in GB gardens is now freely available for a limited time. Please RT to spread the word 📣authors.elsevier.com/c/1i~vVB8cd0JT1

Emperor moth today at whixall moss! Shropshire Wildlife Trust West Midlands Butterfly Conservation Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Having given up on the weather, it was a case of searching for roosting butterflies. Female OT and male GVW found eventually in Friston Forest. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Sussex Butterfly Conservation

The blossom on this Willow tree is covered in Green Hairstreak butterflies. In flight you can see the brown upper wings. #cumbria ⁦Butterfly Conservation 🦋⁩

This female Orange-tip has been roosting on a head of garlic mustard in our Worcs garden all day.
During sunny spells she takes off to nectar but, as soon as it clouds up, always returns to the same flower head to roost.
West Midlands Butterfly Conservation Worcs Wildlife Trust Butterfly Conservation 🦋

⚠️Vacant UKBMS Live Data butterfly transect at Fineshade Wood!⚠️ If you're interested in surveying beautiful, butterfly-rich woodland (including some exclusive areas 👀), please drop me an email at [email protected]! 🦋 #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme David James

Last night I discovered yet another new location for White-letter Hairstreaks in East Devon - over 3 miles from the nearest record! Easy peasy! BC Devon Branch Butterfly Conservation 🦋 ClintonDevonEstates

Celebrating the arrival of the 'April Fritillary' 🦋📣

The Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne) is now on the wing, first recorded on the 23rd April in Cornwall.

Keep up with all the first sightings as they happen 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/fi…

📷: Bob Eade