How to recognize the Large White (left, P brassicae), Southern Small White (P mannii, centre) and Small White (P rapae, right)? vlinderstichting.nl/vlinders/vlind…

Deeply saddened to hear of so many redundancies at Butterfly Conservation 🦋, most in front line butterfly+moth conservation. A huge loss of expertise just when needed. Also cessation of international work. Let’s hope their finances recover soon when so many species are in dire trouble

Thousands of Garden Tiger moth caterpillars at Spurn Head Yorkshire - never seen so many - everywhere up trees and on the beach. Also Brown- tail and Oak Eggar . Derek Parkinson

Breckland Landscape Recovery getting it ‘just right’. Ambitious, but achievable. Complex enough to hit objectives for nature, but straightforward enough to actually be delivered. Enthusiastic, but realistic leadership. It’s conservation Baby Bear’s porridge. Well done them 👏👏

During a successful search for larvae and pupae amongst the heather 🐛 🐜 , was not surprised to find a dozen SSB's already flying in Ipswich today, a fortnight ahead of schedule 🦋 BC Suffolk Branch

Horrendous sight outside pub in the Yorkshire Moors - even the cushions! Shit Lawns #BanPlasticTurf

A record year for dukes with a total peak count of 590, a mix of well established colony sites, newly establishing colonies & record year for single dukes at new locations across the landscape. Thx to @BCkentBranch vols. Kent farmers creating new habitats, driving nature recovery

Good to see Small Tortoiseshell over the last few days Cambridgeshire and Essex

Exciting news! Twywell Hills & Dales has been added to the Northamptonshire Black Hairstreak distribution list today after the transect walker photographed one drying out its wing after recently emerging. There are more details here in this blog post! northantsbutterflies.com/blog/its-time-…

An incredible job opporuntunity: set up & run a new Suffolk nature charity with a guaranteed investment of £78 million investment over the next 70+ years. I am a founding Trustee. prospect-us-site.co.uk/east Please share Bill Sutherland Cambridge Conservation Initiative Selwyn College

Good to find continued presence of Kentish milkwort following new introduction of seedling plants by speciesrecoverytrust on newly created wildflower grassland. Lace border and black veined moth putting on a show too, as first time records on new sites. Farmers leading nature recov'

Scarce Pug on North Norfolk Coast yesterday -bit windy for photos. An increasingly rare moth.

Is 2025 (red lines) a good butterfly year? Yes, on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects there are more butterflies than in 2023 and 2024. Numbers almost exactly equal 2022. But look at the 1990s. Compared to then it is a poor butterfly year. Shifting baselines!

This is an historic photo. Congratulations to William Brame (who took the photo) for realising this was a different white butterfly. Now confirmed by Chris van Swaay as a Southern Small White - the first seen in England. As it is a female let's hope it has been laying eggs.

As a true climate opportunist the Short-tailed Blue (C argiades, staartblauwtje), which arrived in NL in 2009, profits from hot and dry summers caused by climate change. Numbers on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects now higher than ever.

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Still plenty of Grayling butterflies out on the heath, some a little worn now, and basking in warm places, followed by lots of chasing around! (Dunwich Heath, 6th September 2025) BC Suffolk Branch Butterfly Conservation 🦋 SuffolkWildlifeTrust

Analysis by Land App showing where 4,520 CS Mid-Tier farm environmental schemes covering >51,000ha arable land expire on 31st Dec due to government’s suspension of SFI. Decades of taxpayer investment in nature to be erased while ministers ponder. thelandapp.com/2025/09/22/the…

Large Heath seen at Breaks Moss South, Brampton on 28 Sep 2025.

Excellent advice from Hugh Possingham on monitoring conservation projects and why most Monitoring and Evaluation is flawed. youtu.be/qa6Ewt-W5mU?si…