The caterpillars have bright yellow-green and black markings, and the adults are black with red spots - both clear warning signs that they would make a dangerous snack! 🐛⚠️
📷: Samantha Batty, Ann Collier
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Did you know that the wildflower Birds-foot Trefoil is a source of cyanide? Burnet moth caterpillars will use this harmful chemical to make themselves unpalatable to predators such as birds.
📷: Kelly Thomas
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Happy #SummerSolstice ! ☀️ How will you be celebrating the longest day of the year?
‘Solstice’ comes from the Latin, ‘solstitium’, meaning the stopping or standing still of the sun.
📸: Common Blue - Verity Hill
Large Skipper butterfly near Bishops Lydeard BC Somerset & Bristol Butterfly Conservation UKBMS Live Data Somerset Butterfly Recorder OM SYSTEM Cameras #focusstacking
Happy #MothMonday ! Here's a dash of green to start off the week 💚
The Large Emerald (Geometra papilionaria) is indeed, the largest of the 'emerald' moths found in the UK.
Find out more about this moth 👉 butrfli.es/2OkfEEa
📷: Rachel Scopes, Iain H Leach
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At last; a Small White butterfly on Red Valerian in my Taunton garden. BC Somerset & Bristol Butterfly Conservation SWT Taunton UK Butterflies #Butterflies
It's #InsectWeek ! 🦋
In celebration of 'the little things that run the world', take a look at this animation showing how the beautiful process of metamorphosis takes place.
Learn more about the life cycle 👉 butrfli.es/3L9sljZ
#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter Insect Week
Butterfly themed gate designed for Uttarakhand forest department by us🦋Uttarakhand Forest Department Ramesh Pandey Ankit Kumar, IFS Harshraj Wathore Mohan Pargaien IFS🇮🇳 Vivek Menon Wildlife Institute of India Centre for Wildlife Studies Wildlife Conservation Trust (India) BBC Wildlife Butterfly Conservation Butterfly Foundation
We’re delighted to be part of the Natur am Byth! partnership which is celebrating a National Lottery Heritage Fund award of over £4.1 million to save Wales’s most vulnerable wildlife! 🦋🏴
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📷: Bob Eade
More butterfly adventures. A male Silver~studded blue 🦋
It was amazing to see so many dancing around the bursting heather🪻
#butterfly #butterflies #macrophotography #beautiful #savenature #savebutterflies #BBCWildlifePOTD #bbccountryfilemagpotd BBC Springwatch
Caterpillars of the Goat moth live inside the trunks of a variety of broadleaved trees, feeding on the wood. Digesting wood is a slow process, so the caterpillar takes four years to reach full size (Up to 10cm!)
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On Wednesdays, we wear pink! 💖
Look out for the fabulous Elephant Hawk-moth this month. The name is inspired by the caterpillar's unusual resemblance to an elephant's trunk! 🐘
Learn more about this 'Mean Moth' 👉 butrfli.es/2JbleW6
📷: Rachel Scopes
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The Adonis Blue butterfly is one of the most characteristic of unimproved southern chalk downland, where it can be seen flying low over shortly grazed turf (typically steep, south-facing slopes)
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📷 Iain H Leach
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The latest UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS Live Data) results revealed that last summer’s heatwave and drought had a significant impact on some butterfly species, like the Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock and Brimstone.
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The rare & beautiful Large Blue #butterfly . Seen 2day @ Daneway Banks Gloucestershire. This species can be hard to photograph. You need a humid day with sunny spells & a rain shower helps as well. Butterfly Conservation The British Nature Guide
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Tiny butterfly hanging out in the wheat