Two more butterflies are now on the wing! 🦋

The first Wall (Lasiommata megera) of 2024 was recorded in Essex on the 13 April, along with a Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) on the same date in East Sussex.

Follow the first sightings 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/fi…

📸: Bob Eade

Orangetip Butterfly Conservation 🦋

1/3 Ragwort is a much maligned plant yet it is really important to a whole range of insects who benefit from its nectar and pollen and for other insects it provides food for their early stages. Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Sooooooo Lovely 💙💙💙💙🦋 “Brimstone” (iRecord ✅) BC Suffolk Branch SuffolkWildlifeTrust Butterfly Conservation 🦋

My first green hairstreak of the year today at whixall moss! Butterfly Conservation 🦋 West Midlands Butterfly Conservation Shropshire Wildlife Trust

Springing into spring like...

Moths come in many different shapes and sizes! Just take a look at the majestic Green Longhorn (Adela reaumurella) 💚

📸 : Tim Melling
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A beautiful blue moon 🦋 for #TitliTuesday & #TuesdayBlue
IndiAves Butterfly Conservation 🦋
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Holly Blue. RSPB North York Moors NP Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Woodland Trust🌳 #MacroHour 🌿 #ThePhotoHour Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Butterfly Conservation Yorkshire

My first orange tip of the year. Spring is here!..

Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃

This gorgeous Speckled Wood Butterfly is warming up in the sun on my garden fence #TitliTuesday #Butterflies Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Holly Blue at North Cove Nature Reserve this afternoon. BC Suffolk Branch Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Holly Blue butterfly, Sandy Beds Quantock Hills National Landscape BC Somerset & Bristol Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UKBMS Live Data OM SYSTEM Cameras OM Digital Solutions

I watched this female Orange Tip visiting Garlic Mustard flowers to lay her eggs. In woodland in RSPB Minsmere 🌍

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Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Suffolk Butterfly Recorder BC Suffolk Branch RSPB NatureUK BBC Springwatch

The Purple Thorn (Selenia tetralunaria) is one of our species to look out for this month 🤩

This magnificent moth rests with wings open and half-raised and forewings slightly curled. Learn more 👉 butrfli.es/2TyvBsB

📸: Iain H Leach Pete Withers, Andrew Cooper
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Mating pair of Green-veined White. Low Habberley, Worcs West Midlands Butterfly Conservation Worcs Wildlife Trust Butterfly Conservation 🦋

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Green Veined Whites Butterfly Conservation 🦋