Go Team Tiger Beetle - could this be the "Upset" Conservation Challenge? Let's make it happen! 🪲🐞 Keep voting everybody! #uproarchallenge uproar.indianapoliszoo.com

Great to see that an invert made it to the final round! We're rooting for you, Bolivian Ornate Tiger Beetle! Let's bring this home! Voting closes on 4 April @ 1:30pm Eastern Time. You can vote daily, from different devices! uproar.indianapoliszoo.com #UproarChallenge

Please continue to vote in the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! In Round 3 (closing TOMORROW) we are taking on the White-Rumped Vulture! Take a standard 30cm ruler: #DYK the female birdwing can measure 28cm tip to tip? That's NEARLY a ruler! It's BIG! @protectspecies.bsky.social

Let’s do it. A call for Global Butterfly Monitoring. These insects can tell us a lot about the health of our planet

🚨🚨🚨Publication alert! 🚨🚨🚨 Taking a breather from #uproarchallenge, there's a new paper online today that was several years in the making (all the best papers are!): conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Round 2 voting is underway for the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! Help the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing reach Round 3 for an even greater conservation prize! Voting ends 23 March @ 23:59 Eastern Time! You can now vote DAILY! Share & vote now! #uproarchallenge

📣📣📣 People of Gillingham! This is wonderful news! 👏👏👏 Please vote for the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing in the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! uproar.indianapoliszoo.com Are we getting too invested? 🤣🤣🤣

Voting has now opened for Round 1 of the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! #Uproarchallenge Our friends at eButterfly posted this blog on why you should vote for the spectacular Queen Alexandra's Birdwing! e-butterfly.org/en/content/t... Vote here: uproar.indianapoliszoo.com

🚨The Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge is here!🚨 You can help the LARGEST BUTTERFLY IN THE WORLD, the Queen Alexandra Birdwing & the IUCN Butterfly & Moth #SpecialistGroup advance through Round 1! Round 1 voting: March 16-19 @ UproarChallenge.com #UproarChallenge

We're proud to have supported this effort to reassess the butterflies to Europe, but the results are sobering: Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List iucncongress2025.org/newsroom/all...

As June comes to a close, we reflect on swallowtails (it was World Swallowtail Day this month, thanks to @sbbtrust.bsky.social!) & the work still ahead on the IUCN Red List Global Swallowtail reassessment. Thanks for posting, @protectspecies.bsky.social! www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/bi...

🎙️ Listen to #swallowtail experts @sbbtrust.bsky.social & @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social in episode 21 of the ZSL Wild Science podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/68fzMl…#TheRuffordFoundationon

Swallowtail of the Month #1: Common Swallowtail (Troides helena) Photo credit @Chooi-Khim Phon

Happy #WorldSwallowtailDay! We are excited to launch our "Swallowtail of the Month" feature in celebration of today, but acknowledging that for many of us, World Swallowtail Day is EVERY day! If you have a favourite swallowtail, let us know. We would like to feature your favourites too!

Wishing our friends at @sbbtrust.bsky.social a wonderful day with many swallowtails! #WorldSwallowtailDay

Happy #WorldSwallowtailDay! Watch this space for the launch of our new #SwallowtailoftheMonth feature later today, and learn all about our Global Swallowtail Assessment!

Great yet alarming work by @pro-pink.bsky.social & collaborators! Time to increase our efforts to assess, plan and ACT for (especially mountain, but also all) butterflies!

🚨"We project that up to 64% of the temperature niche space of butterflies in tropical realms will erode by 2070" thus turning mountains - known centers of butterfly diversity - from refugia to traps for butterfly diversity. Another sobering outlook for butterflies! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From @nytimes.com, “Butterfly populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.” Don't forget to follow @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social, which recently joined Bluesky. 🌍🧪🦋 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sobering news this week: 20 years of butterfly population data shows severe declines across the USA! See link to paper below + @xercessociety.bsky.social press release!

We've fluttered onto @bsky.app! Follow us to hear the latest IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group news and other Lepidoptera information!