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Butterfly Conservation 🦋
@savebutterflies
The official account for UK wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation. Saving butterflies, moths and the environment. 💚
Sep 18, 2024 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This year’s #BigButterflyCount results are in and it’s not good news for nature 📰🦋

Overall, participants spotted just 7 butterflies on average per 15-minute Count, a reduction of almost 50% on last year’s average of 12, and the lowest in the 14-year history of the Count. 🧵 Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on scabious flowers. Text overlay reads 'We are in a Butterfly Emergency' with alarm and butterfly graphic above the text. Butterfly Conservation logo in top left corner. Photo by Will Langdon. It was the worst summer in the Count’s history for Common Blue, Holly Blue, Green-veined White, Small White, Small Tortoiseshell, Painted Lady and Scotch Argus. And the majority of species (81%) showed declines in the number seen this year compared with 2023.

📷: Savannah Jones Male Common Blue butterfly resting with wings open on yellow grass
Aug 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Good news for the threatened Marsh Fritillary in Dorset! 🦋

Over 500 caterpillar webs have been found during an annual survey at Lankham Bottom reserve - the highest number ever recorded on this site.

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📷: Iain H Leach
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Marsh Fritillary butterfly on red campion flowers Cath Shellswell, Dorset and Wiltshire Landscape Officer said: “The Marsh Fritillary is one of the few butterflies that it is possible for us to count during the caterpillar stage thanks to the conspicuous silken webs they create over their food plant."
(2/5) Tiny Marsh Fritillary larvae on a web attached to a Devil's-bit scabious plant stem
Sep 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Here in the UK we live in one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. Nature is in crisis and urgent action must be taken to protect our environment, including butterflies, moths and their habitats. ⚠️🧵 (1/5) Which is why we are appalled with last week’s Government announcement that they intend to downgrade environmental protections. (2/5)