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On the FINAL week of the Big #ButterflyCount, we've just surpassed 100,000 counts, that's more 1 MILLION butterflies recorded across the UK. Can you help us reach 125,000 before Sunday? Take part today 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

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).

When you go out with your fingers crossed for an Orange-tip and end up not only with an Orange-tip, but also Speckled Wood and an unexpected Dingy Skipper 🥳.

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 🦋 Richard Fox Rachel Jones UK Butterflies Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Not butterfly weather today, so it was a joy to spot this fresh Marsh Fritillary out on a visit to one of the 'Dorset Duke' sites this morning. #butterflies #spring

It isn't easy being a fifth instar Lulworth Skipper larvae moving between blades on a windy day.

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

Positive launch of a really important farmer cluster for Dorset. It was good to be able to give a whistle-stop tour through the ecology of some of Dorset's priority butterfly species.

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!

Holly Blue is currently the most recorded butterfly in UK gardens in 2022. Join Butterfly Conservation 🦋 year-round Garden Butterfly Survey to help us understand how butterflies are faring in gardens & gather evidence to support wildlife gardening. gardenbutterflysurvey.org

Want to understand how habitat management on individual patches affects landscape distribution of the Lulworth Skipper butterfly? You can find out in the first paper from my PhD onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oi…

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.

Enjoyable evening catching up with others and learning about recording in and around the Purbecks. Thanks for the invitation to speak about Lulworth Skipper!

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

We’re looking for 3 talented people to help us deliver our threatened species and landscapes goals across the UK! 🦋 Head of Conservation Wales and Northern Ireland 🦋 Dorset and Wiltshire Landscape Officer 🦋 Conservation Manager North England Apply 👉 butrfli.es/2KOjLdm

We're looking for an Ecologist to drive species recovery contributing directly to our goal to halve the number of the UK’s threatened butterflies and moths 📣 Could this role be for you? Find out more 👉 butrfli.es/2KOjLdm #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter #EnvironmentJobs

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…).