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When was the last time you saw a Small Tortoiseshell? This year's #BigButterflyCount saw the average number of Small Tortoiseshells counted fall by a massive 74% from the previous year, with a decline of 59% since the Count began 14 years ago. #ButterflyEmergency

Mothing in VC16 West Kent tonight turned up three Marsh Mallow Moth. All three flew in at circa 9pm with none being seen on the food plant. Glow Worm was a nice bonus.

Cat attacks are one of the most common causes of bat casualties, as reported by bat rehabilitators. There are a few simple things you can do to help protect bats bats.org.uk/about-bats/thr…

Tickets are booking up fast for the #BigCityButterflies Conference! 🦋 Join us for a free day packed full of talks and workshops. Book your spot here: …tterflies-Conference.eventbrite.co.uk

A good example of the tokenism that so often passes for 'action' on biodiversity collapse: a 'bug hotel', plonked in a garden of a) Sterile lawns b) Alien plants It's shocking, I know, but what wildlife *really* needs is actual wild, natural HABITAT.

Back out in the Blean with R&R (after a bit of a cold...) target species - larvae of Hellinsia chrysocomae, the Scarce Goldenrod Plume kentmoths.org/species/hellin… - distribution getting a bit restricted. #moths #mothsmatter Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London KentMoths

Beautiful day at @WoodlandTrust Joydens wood with Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London looking at moth larvae among other things - the third pic looked like walking seed heads. #moths #mothsmatter KentMoths

UTB volunteers, Chiltern Rangers & pupils of Madeville and Naphill schools came together to work at Winchester Wood, Bucks, to improve the habitat for the Duke, Downland Plume moth and other rare insects. (photos and report N. Bowles).

Great to be able to share the work the Butterfly Conservation 🦋 team and I get up to across SE England with HantsIoW BC today.

The Butterflies of London will be published in early 2025, here is a pre-publication offer you can take advantage of. naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop Big City Butterflies BC Surrey BC Cambs and Essex @WildLondon LNHS Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Our latest book The Butterflies of London (published for LNHS) has now gone to print & the pre-publication offer is now on - pre-order here bit.ly/3UQdmRI for delivery in early January 2025 & save £9.95 on published price @WildLondon Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @ukbutterflies

NEW guide to managing urban habitats for butterflies! 🦋 Get helpful tips and management advice to provide the best habitat conditions for butterflies. Download your free guide today 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/repor… Thanks to funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund The National Lottery Heritage Fund London & South

Join us Thurs 12th Dec for a festive volunteer task at Walmer Beach, helping rare butterflies, moths & wildflowers at this special coastal site. New volunteers welcome! Meet 10am at Borrow Pit Car Park (W3W: grocers.huts.baseless). Dover District Council Samphire Hoe Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

Join us tomorrow night for a talk on project achievements including recording over 20,000 butterflies, creating 27,000m2 of meadow and delivering 87 school workshops and 83 community events! BC_HertsMiddx BC Surrey BC Cambs and Essex Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

If you missed the Big City Butterflies project update on Zoom last week. Here is the link to the recording BC Cambs and Essex Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London BC Surrey Big City Butterflies youtu.be/dzUkJAMP8c4?si…

Hardy volunteers wanted to join Christmas butterfly egg hunt! 🥚❄️ While it might be a little early for Easter, winter is the best time to look for the tiny white eggs of the elusive Brown Hairstreak (Thecla betulae). Find out how to join the search 👇 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/…

Join Big City Butterflies for a free online talk with Project Officer Steve and the author of the new Butterflies of London book, we'll be reviewing population trends and looking at specific transect sites and species. Register on Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/butterflies-…

We were pleased to be joined by BBC South Today as we surveyed for the elusive Black Hairstreak at Bernwood Meadows with the help of UV light 🔦 Catch Conservation Manager Steven Lofting and the BBO Wildlife Trust team talking about this new technique (from 20:10) 👉 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…