
Rachel Jones
@rachjbc
Senior Ecologist @savebutterflies 🦋. PhD student @UniofExeter researching Lulworth Skipper 🐛. Runner, coast path hiker and festival goer. All views my own.
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Back out in the field today counting Marsh Fritillary larval webs in Dorset with Caroline Bulman. Positive counts as web numbers seem comparable, if not improved, on last years (and 2019 was a good year on the damp grassland sites).



Wow, Dingy Skipper in the morning then a special delivery in the afternoon. Looking forward to reading this by Martin Warren.


The Lulworths are out! Two seen at Bindon Hill above Lulworth Cove where I saw 4th instar larvae on 1st April. Also Small Heath and Green Hairstreak braving the wind BC Dorset 🦋 @RichardFoxBC Rachel Jones @ukbutterflies Butterfly Conservation 🦋




I made the really difficult decision not to attend #EAB2021 this week. I was so looking forward to presenting some exciting results as part of my postdoc with Butterfly Conservation 🦋. I'll be joining online though and hopefully sharing my work soon!


Stunning Exmoor today, monitoring Heath Fritillary colonies across Holnicote with fabulous National Trust South West colleagues; continuing to deliver landscape-scale conservation for this priority species Jenny Plackett Nigel Bourn Rachel Jones Exmoor Ranger



Great to chat all things Marsh Fritillary for this book, along with Caroline Bulman. Expecting an entertaining insight into the 10 species, look forward to reading it!


Before and after. Great to see results of winter management at a local Duke of Burgundy site as part of Hilfield Friary led cluster group project. Scalloped scrub edges, perching points, scattered scrub and shelter retained, but grassland opened up and connectivity improved.



Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting is happening on Sat 25 March. This is the first in person UKBRM since 2019! Please do support this FREE event. Richard Lewington NatureBureau and Hachiware Art will be attending too. Don't delay book today! bit.ly/3ZAZU4p




STOP PRESS AGAIN: Lulworth Skipper out in Dorset. A fairly unique photo by Paul Freedman at Ballard Down Rachel Jones dorsetbutterflies.com/2023/05/dingy-…

New review paper published with Ilya Maclean, Rob Wilson and Nigel Bourn on patchy range retractions and conserving terrestrial species under a changing climate. link.springer.com/article/10.100…).

New publication "Habitat management interventions for a specialist mid- successional grassland #butterfly, the Lulworth Skipper" with Rachel Jones, Robert Wilson, Ilya Maclean & Nigel Bourn. 🦋 link.springer.com/article/10.100…
