Tour update 🚨 As of this afternoon, our Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees tour is now a guaranteed departure in May 2026. We love returning to the butterflies here, and we love the donation it generates to help the work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social. mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Happy winter solstice to all our supporters and wishing you a wonderful and Lepidoptera filled New Year

A great new course from colleagues at @europebutterfly.bsky.social

[3/3] 3) free butterfly taxonomy course: The Pollinator Academy has launched a free, online butterfly identification course. With flexible lessons taking just 10–30 minutes, you can master European butterfly characteristics at your own pace 🦋 pollinatoracademy.eu/training/eu-... #PollinatorAcademy

Part 1 - Moth-trapping at Baza Desert, Granada Province, Andalucia, Spain on the 22nd of October 2025. Photos are; Agrotis lasserei & Crimson Speckled - Utetheisa pulchella. - see alt button for details in photos #teammoth #spanishmoths www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

And you get a personal 'profile' and a PDF guide to Mediterranean butterflies too!

Our friends at the University of Florence have been looking into the aesthetic appeal of European butterflies and does this bias the species we choose to protect. You can help their research by completing a simple online survey. Many thanks in advance www.unveiling.eu?fbclid=IwZXh...

Well worth a look. Dirk is one of the top butterfly researchers in Europe and a founder member of BC Europe

Cristina is our wonderful co-ordinator of the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Under her guidance the scheme is expanding rapidly and more and more people are getting involved. Do join in and help us monitor butterflies

Intriguing paper from the UK showing contrasting trends of Plebejus argus in two different habitats: heathlands doing very well, limestone grasslands doing very badly. Wonderful to see what fifty years worth of monitoring data can show us

Neue Rote Liste der Tagfalter & Widderchen Deutschlands. Gut gefällt mir, dass in Sachen Gefährdungsursachen die Landnutzungsgeschichte & historische Nutzungsformen stärker miteinbezogen werden. Kuh & Pferd hätten aber etwas stärker gewürdigt werden können. www.rote-liste-zentrum.de/de/Rote-List...

Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Needless to say, our Butterflies of North Greece tour generates a donation to support the invaluable conservation work of our friends at @europebutterfly.bsky.social. Just three places remain available to join David Moore & Martin Davies there in 2026... www.mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Tour update 🚨 Just 1 place remains available to join us and our good friend Kate Humble on our Butterflies of the Hautes Pyrenees tour next July. Like ALL our butterfly tours, this tour generates a donation to help the good work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social. mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Tour update 🚨 Things move fast around here! Our Butterflies of the Hautes Pyrenees tour is now fully booked. We can't wait to share outstanding alpine ringlets, and other butterflies, with our guests next year, and to make our donation to support @europebutterfly.bsky.social's invaluable work.

For day 10 of our #AdventCalendar we're in the beautiful Norfolk Broads, UK, with the endemic race of Swallowtail (Papilio machaon ssp. britannicus). Photo by Anna G, a guest on our tour with @patrickbarkham.bsky.social All our butterfly tours include a donation to @europebutterfly.bsky.social

For @europebutterfly.bsky.social followers, this is the tour their kind repost refers to! www.mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Some highly sought-after species are possible, including four(!) Phengaris large blue sp, and eastern specialities like Lesser Clouded Yellow and Assman's Fritillary. A guaranteed departure, naturally the tour generates a donation to support our friends at @europebutterfly.bsky.social. (2/2)

How about this to brighten up your Monday? A 'flock' of Rajah Brookes' Birdwings (Trogonoptera brookiana). They were photographed on our Malay Peninsula tour this year by leader Adrian Hoskins. This tour also helped us raise funds to donate to @europebutterfly.bsky.social #AdventCalendar

We finished our very successful partner meeting with a celebration of Butterfly Conservation Europe’s 21st Birthday. @martinswarren.bsky.social gave a great review of the many achievements over the years and we made a toast. All the presentations are on our website www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

The European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme data entry system developed by our friends at @ukceh.bsky.social is now being used in other countries around the world, with transects now starting in Japan and several parts of Africa and the Americas

Good to have a dedicated moth session at our partner meeting, led by Jurriën van Deijk, who has just coordinated a new European Moth Red List. There are a huge number of moths in Europe: 11,000 species, many of them important pollinators and the basis of food chains. We hope to build a new network

The European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is growing fast thanks to some funding from the EU. We now have transects in nearly every European country. This is a powerful dataset to assess the health of our environment and improve biodiversity conservation

Thank you so much for your vital support. We are at a critical time for butterflies and moths, with very many species in peril. With your help we will give them a better chance of survival in a rapidly changing world

Our ninth partner meeting starts today in the German town of Laufen. We will be discussing how to use butterflies as indicators of environmental change and help improve EU policies to reverse the decline of pollinators. We aim to provide the science to inform the best possible policies

He continued, 'With your help we are taking practical measures to save threatened species and providing detailed advice to improve European policies. Thanks to you all.’ Observe & conserve butterflies & moths by joining a Greenwings tour today... greenwings.co/our-holidays...

Dr Martin Warren from BCE said, ‘We are enormously grateful to Greenwings and all their clients for supporting our work. European butterflies are under severe threat and need our help more than ever.

The Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus, groot dikkopje) is not only declining in NL but in the whole EU, where we can see a reduction in populationsize with appr 50%. www.butterfly-monitoring.eu #eBMS

New research from Belgium doesn’t support the ‘lost generation’ theory for the decline of the Wall, but does show reduced survival with warming temperatures 🌍 nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... (📷 Mark Searle)

The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...

New study confirms that short wavelength light (UV & blue) attracts the most nocturnal insects & that intensity increases attraction for all colours. Longer wavelength & lower intensity outdoor lights should reduce biodiversity impacts resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #teammoth 🌍

🦋 Spring Butterflies of Central & Northern Spain 🦋 Summer Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees 🦋 Autumn Exotica in Andalusia Like ALL our butterfly tours, they generate donations to support the great conservation work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social. (2/2)

And speaking of conservation, as with all our butterfly tours, this one generates a donation to support the valuable work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social Find out more & grab the last places here... greenwings.co/our-holidays...

And naturally, like ALL of our butterfly tours, this one generates a donation to support the crucial conservation work of the brilliant team @europebutterfly.bsky.social, who work tirelessly to help some of the most threatened #butterflies across Europe. (3/3) www.mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

The accommodation for our Butterflies of the Spanish Pyrenees is a cut above - Casa Sarasa is run by naturalists for naturalists, set in stunning countryside and with wildlife on the doorstep. Leader Peter's moth trap can yield some enormous surprises... @europebutterfly.bsky.social

The number of butterflies at risk of extinction across Europe has increased significantly in the past 15 years, a new assessment has warned:

Update on our featured tour of the week, Spring Butterflies of Central & Northern Spain - as of this afternoon, it's now got just 4 places left available. Running 16-23 April, generating a donation to @europebutterfly.bsky.social, catch it while you can! mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Running 30 April - 7 May 2026, just 1 place remains available to join this perennially popular tour. And, of course, like ALL our butterfly tours, it generates a donation to support the great conservation work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social. (2/2) mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

Good morning and welcome to a new week! Our featured Spanish tour of the week is Spring Butterflies of Andalusia - a chance to enjoy a mouth-watering array of special butterflies rare or absent elsewhere in Europe. (1/2) mariposanature.com/tours/butter... @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Extraordinary discovery, and what a beautiful butterfly!

We have added two new pages to our website: habitat management principles for butterflies (and other pollinators) and causes of decline. Check them out here www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

🎃 Trick or treat?! It's Halloween, and we have a HUGE announcement to make later on today! 🎃 There's a clue in the images here... #butterflies @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Miguel's working life has been devoted to butterflies and, among other accomplishments, he's been a pivotal part of @europebutterfly.bsky.social (BCE), including a tenure as its Chair. As regular Mariposa guests will know, we donate to BCE after every one of our butterfly tours. (2/2)

We're thrilled to share this film featuring some of the dedicated volunteers who monitor butterflies for the UKBMS A huge thank you to them, and everyone who's supported the scheme over the last 50 years. #UKBMS50 youtu.be/OrF5AgseX1U?...

Gelechioidea, that superdiverse superfamily of Lepidoptera that has been a super mess taxonomically, finally gets some structure at the family level with phylogenomics! Read all about it in our article led by PhD student @etkayapar.bsky.social ! resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Fritillaries of many kinds abound on our featured tour this week, Spring Butterflies of the French Pyrenees. Here are a couple (Spotted & False Heath) kindly shared by one of our guests this year. Our guests have plenty of time and space with which to pursue the perfect portrait! #naturephotography

📢New paper: Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals @universityofleeds.bsky.social with Rothamsted Insect Survey🦋🐝🪰🦟 Full story 👇 www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/trillio...

The opportunities for photography, or simply enjoying the burgeoning butterfly show, are endless here in a beautiful region of France that's bursting into life in late May. And naturally, this tour generates a donation to support the great work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social. (2/2)