England’s most important nature sites are being failed.❌ Protected sites can and should be driving nature’s recovery. But today’s OEP report exposes the real problem: years of weak delivery, underfunding and political drift have left them unable to do the job the law intended.

Tonight's Panorama highlighted carcinogenic 'forever chemical' pollution from the factory we exposed in 2023. The Environment Agency are now testing soil around there, thanks to our testing. Check watershedinvestigations.com @watershed-i.bsky.social for new pollution revelations & all our articles.

Bad times are coming Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications www.theguardian.com/environment/...

😢A Beeless world is already here in some parts of China, where wild bee populations have vanished altogether and people have to go out with feather dusters to try and pollinate crops The rest of world is in a mad rush to kill all the Bees too thinklandscape.globallandscapesforum.org/66175/why-ar...

One of my favourite European butterflies is the Large Chequered Skipper (Heteropterous morpheus). It has a curious undulating flight - the butterfly equivalent of a woodpecker @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social

Another disastrous mistake from our calamitous government. Please email your MP to protest about this latest attempt at bulldozing nature @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

Pond hope!!! Thanks to the @freshwaterbio.bsky.social for some great coverage of our work resurrecting #ghostponds. www.fba.org.uk/fba-voice/gh...

New data suggest that insect life continues to decline, despite a hot summer - Buglife latest news... www.buglife.org.uk/news/new-dat...

Really positive landowner workshop yesterday to discuss how to save the Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Heart-warming that so many farmers want to help this lovely little butterfly and restore biodiversity. Gives me great hope we can do it @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

The Moth Wonderful Time of the year - free, online event to join.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-moth-w...

'Flying Tiger' A female Danaus chrysippus. Common names are Plain Tiger, African Monarch, or Sultan, depending on where you are in the world. That hints at the how widespread a species it is.

1/2 The next 4-5 days/nights should be the most productive spell for North African migrants that we've seen so far this year (not difficult, I know!!!). Tuesday and Wednesday in particular look very interesting. [NB, any resemblance to male appendages in the charts is purely coincidental] #teammoth

The Invisible Toll of Bird Flu on Wildlife. Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at scales no one fully understands... www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird...

How just a single seed can kill 80,000 bees. A common farming practice is spreading toxic pesticides into the environment: harming pollinators, wildlife and ecosystems - and we've known of the damage for years... ☠️ environmentamerica.org/articles/how...

So much for "boosting growth". All this vandalism will do is leave us with devastated ecosystems, fewer green spaces, worse quality of life, while neither solving the housing crisis (because the problem IS NOT AND NEVER WAS "bats and newts") nor creating "growth". www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🫢 😳 😧 🤢 🤮 😡 I have an even worse feeling about THIS:

Great to see so many fellow butterfly enthusiasts at the @upperthames.bsky.social Members Day, listening to fascinating talk by Peter Marren on butterfly names, which go back to 1700s

Pesticide cocktails can be highly damaging to insects and other wildlife. It’s truly shocking that they are still so widely used in a manner which contaminates people, the countryside and wildlife @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

Remember this, whenever someone says "alternative proteins - yuck!" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It seems that Robins are partial to Box Tree Moths!

Excellent day in Nottingham celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fabulous @ukbms.bsky.social

Sat 11th Oct 2025 2.15 pm Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025 at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk

Oil trade faces ‘crude awakening’ as rising seas threaten global ports... www.eco-business.com/news/oil-tra...

Butterflies need two things to thrive: good weather and a healthy environment ☀️🌱 Join us in asking UK retailers to remove synthetic pesticides from sale for a wilder, butterfly-filled future for generations to come 👉 https://butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-mission/

Butterflies need our help. If you’re in the UK please sign and share. 🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #pesticides butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-missi...

Help support the rescue mission for #butterflies and moths! 🦋 We've partnered with @savebutterflies.bsky.social to call for #butterfly-killing synthetic #pesticides to be removed from supermarket and garden centre shelves. Find out more in our blog: gardenorganic.org.uk/news/rescue-...

Want to know how you can help? Have your say on the Big Insect Rescue Plan, our collaborative plan championing your voice and ideas so we can save the insects that our ecosystems depend on, together. 🦋 Take part here 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/big-insect-r...

We need insects, but today, insects need us to take action 🚨 We've united with Buglife and @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social to sound the alarm for insects, by launching a Declaration on UK Insect Declines. Find out more about why it’s so important we speak up now 👇

The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official... 2025 was an average year for butterflies. See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇 https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025

Innovative analysis of the Big Butterfly Count, starts at 5 mins 40 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

LANG'S SHORT-TAILED BLUE (Leptotes pirithous), taken in a light trap at Lizard, Cornwall on 7/9. Perhaps the 4th UK record (3rd likely genuine vagrant) #ukbutterflies #savebutterflies

Small heaths in the mood for love at Landguard today #butterflies

Tax avoidance is unpatriotic.

Brown Argus butterflies flying in between the rain showers today. #butterflies

Restoring sites for Small Blue - beautiful new video showing a remote scottish site. Superficially very different from our local sites in Herts, but sharing the key characteristic, low fertility soil youtu.be/OIzKEZKkL48?... @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

The best piece I’ve read this year on Trump’s increasingly blatant lurch towards total power. To quote Sinclair Lewis, if you think “it can’t happen here” you are just not paying attention. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New wildflower meadow on set-aside on edge of our village - painted ladies, common blue and even clouded yellow! So happy to get painted lady flight sequence OM1mk2,40-150f2.8 @royalent.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-westmids.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social

A lovely Dewick’s Plusia. A first for me. Found in my Hertfordshire garden this evening. An immigrant moth & possible recent colonist #teammoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

Day 10, Betong Thailand - Jewelled Narwab was the star butterfly today. Six different species of Jezebels and now at least 170 species in total Some requiring detailed study, so overall total will rise,hopefully also extra sightings on last day tomorrow @greenwingstours.bsky.social

Wow! An epic sight of 100+ Rajah Brooke’s Birdwing today by our group on tour in Malaysia. A lot bigger & a lot easier to identify than a Southern Small White in England!

Day 8 - back into Thailand from Malaysia. Todays star sightings Malayan Owl (seen in Thailand), Zebra Ringlet, The Cruiser and view from my hotel window in Betong Too many stunning species to mention! @greenwingstours.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx

Malaysia, Day 6. More spectacular butterflies, waterfalls and a troop of monkeys in the treetops These are Brilliant Blue, Branded Imperial,Blue Pansey @greenwingstours.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx

Malay Peninsular Day 5 - Chocolate Albatross, Lemon Emigrant, Charaxes Hebe and dozens more. Last nights moth trap produced a few moths plus a wide range of other insects including this magnificent beetle @greenwingstours.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Malaysia, Day4, arrived in Sementra robe greeted by Rajah Brooks Birdwing, makes taking moisture and salts from the hot springs in considerable numbers. @greenwingstours.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Greenwings Tour of Malay Peninsular up and running. 66 butterfly species recorded in the first three days @greenwingstours.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Bangkok butterflies from Thailand. Plain Tiger, Tiny Grass Blue, Lime and Common Tiger. The Tigers are stunning insects, badly in need of a better PR agent @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-

An ideal 15 minute break from thesis writing - taking part in the @bas.ac.uk BioBlitz #BigButterflyCount with @savebutterflies.bsky.social - leis na hacmhainní i nGaeilge!

Five Peacock caterpillar nests in one small area down at Chapmans Pool on South Dorset coast plus others around Purbeck implies the biggest second gen I have ever seen. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social