Rare and Sensitive Breeding Birds. Please avoid posting photos of rare and sensitive breeding birds and divulging their location and nest sites from 1st March to 31 July. #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall

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Anger as plans to infill wildlife-rich Essex quarry recommended for approval.... www.buglife.org.uk/news/anger-a...

Thurrock Council’s planning committee has granted permission for the Tilbury 3 proposals that will see the loss of nationally important Pulverised Fuel Ash habitats. It calls into question the long-term future of some of its most threatened invertebrates... www.buglife.org.uk/campaigns/st...

Marsh Fritillary caterpillars have emerged from winter diapause and were communally basking in the sunshine at Church Hay Down today.

The density of the Common Blue (P icarus) per 50km square in 2024 on eBMS Butterfly monitoring transects (www.butterfly-monitoring.net) shows a W-E cline, with lowest densities in Ireland, UK, Portugal and NL and highest in Sweden, Austria, Italy and Balkans.

Last call. If anyone has any butterfly records for Suffolk (2025) please submit them online this weekend. I plan a final download early next week for processing into the 2025 Suffolk Butterfly Report. Early signs are of a record breaking year for observations. Thank you. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

From Landguard, Only our third site record of Early Moth which is one in each of the last two year's plus this one today. It is on the IUCN Red List as "vulnerable".

Hebrew Character has started to appear which should be out from now to early May time.

From white goods to ‘driver Tizer’: volunteers pick up slack in England’s fly-tipping crisis

Blackthorn! No it’s Cherry Plum! No it’s Blackthorn! Sort it out. Cherry Plum has green twigs, no thorns, reflexed sepals and flowers now. And is pretty gorgeous. Blackthorn equally so but in a few weeks #Wildflowerhour

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

In 2025 the number of transects where expert volunteers count butterflies in NL rose to almost 1600. On most of them (1257) all butterflies are counted, but some transects are for one species only or plots for egg-counts.

FIRST REPORT: Green-veined White. 24th Feb. East London @richardfoxbc.bsky.social

FIRST REPORT: Holly Blue, 25th Feb '26. East London @richardfoxbc.bsky.social

FIRST REPORT: Speckled Wood. 25th Feb '26. Essex @richardfoxbc.bsky.social

We are in an environmental crisis. Without clean freshwater habitats, the ecosystems our butterflies and moths depend on will never truly be fully protected from the threat of pollution. But right now, just 14% of English rivers are in Good Ecological Condition. 🧪

The UK Government has unveiled a 10-year deer management strategy for England, pledging to make culling easier in a bid to address what it describes as an expanding deer population that is damaging woodlands and farmland and impacting ground-nesting birds:

This Beautiful Plume is probably regretting coming out of hibernation.

BBC News - Port of Tilbury expansion threatens wildlife, warns Buglife - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Grey Shoulder-knot is not annual here so always good to get one. It emerges in the autumn, hibernates, then comes out again in the spring.

A solitary Peacock left alive in the Purbeck bunkers. Out of 73 that went in. Not a very good survival rate! Culprits are bats (wing photo from last August) and spiders. Let’s hope they do better in other hibernation sites @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

These are the current wind maps (12 noon on 24/2), showing the route dispersing insects are likely to take over the next 48 hours. #teammoth

We found support for the Rapoport effect in butterflies 🦋 species that live in more variable climates have broader thermal tolerances and larger range sizes. A collaboration with Aaron Yilmaz and @sarahdiamond.bsky.social 🔬 academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Put simply, TASC: "it’s nuts that you would build [Sizewell C] in an [area] that is so vulnerable...Dunes in front of the development site had been breached during recent stormy weather" - Sizewell C an immoral financial & environmental burden placed on future generations www.ft.com/content/7f09...

Painted Lady (V. cardui), observed today (22/2) on St Agnes, Isles of Scilly. Per B. Dawson.

Red-headed Chestnut, to light at Shottisham, Suffolk (VC25) on 21/2. P. Kitchener #teammoth

We should see the 1st arrivals in the west tonight, however it's later in the period that looks most promising. There should be a direct airstream from N. Africa from Mon, with Tues & particularly Weds looking promising at this stage, when high concentrations of Saharan dust are possible. #teammoth

Here's the charts for Tuesday and Wednesday - looking good! #teammoth

Eye-opening findings on how light suppresses moth activity. Light attracts moths, but what if we've been missing a much more pervasive effect where even sky-glow light levels make them freeze? Paper: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @uniexecec.bsky.social @esbriolat.bsky.social @kevinjgaston.bsky.social

2025 was another bad year for the Chequered Skipper in NL. The distribution of this butterfly is getting more and more sparse. The species cannot cope very well with the dry years since 2018.

It’s Tuesday so it’s volunteering with Butterfly conservation day! 1st job was to look for Brown hairstreak eggs in this pile of hourly blackthorn cut from the path edges. 5 eggs found & saved 👍😀@bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

Conservationists are being forced to adopt increasingly inventive methods to monitor England's only population of Mountain Ringlet, a scarce butterfly restricted to the highest peaks of the Lake District:

URGENT: our most precious wild places need your voice. ‼️ The Prime Minister is considering weakening the laws that protect nature. Estuaries. Peatlands. National Parks. The places & species we love are in the firing line again. All on the false assumption this will speed up nuclear projects.

We're on track to see a change to a mild south-westerly airstream from Friday (20/2). Saturday onwards looks very promising at this stage. #teammoth

RHS Daffodil Diaries. RHS asks public to help map UK’s daffodils and find rare pink, white and ‘bonfire’ yellow varieties... www.rhs.org.uk/press/releas...

You complete my life-cycle 💕 One of the best ways to help moths thrive is by growing their favourite food plants. Here are some of our top matches. Scarlet Tiger and Common Comfrey have liked each other! #MoonMeadows #MothsMatter

Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth not seen for 150yrs news.mongabay.com/2026/02/citi...

Our second Masterclass in identifying European butterflies is coming up next Wednesday 17th Feb. This one covers the trickier species in the Atlantic region given by renowned expert Chris van Swaay. The Webinar zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/81934375118

Rivers ‘will continue to die’ if nutrient rules change... www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Meanwhile, scientists appointed by over 150 governments have today warned nature and ecosystems are being destroyed at a terrifying rate and could soon take the global economy down with them. www.businessgreen.com/news/4525406...

1/ We need you to make sure your local Greenspace is included on our map ready for the Birds in Greenspaces survey! ➡️ app.bto.org/birds-in... You can use the map to search for mapped greenspaces near you, suggest new sites and changes to existing ones if there's something we've missed!

Just published... Phyllocnistis triandricola (Almond Willow Maze-miner) New UK at Surlingham, Norfolk 14/08/2025 by Seb Buckton (Gen. Det. P. Hall, R. Voith) #teammoth #norfolkmoths norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...

A small chance of 1-2 more common immigrants arriving in the far west tonight. We then look ahead to Sunday (15/2), where hot conditions over the Sahara coupled with a south westerly air stream may bring N. African migrant insects to the south west of Britain and Ireland. #teammoth

The Treasury has finally included environmental principles in its Green Book. "There is no better way to ensure that a cross-government commitment is implemented consistently than to include it in [its] collective systems and processes". @ruthchambers.bsky.social in @endsreport.com ⤵️

A well-founded argument casting doubt on the inclusion of Pieris mannii (Southern Small White) as a British species, based on an image and no supporting specimen is published in the Entomologist's Rec. J. Var. 138 (2026). Was it merely an aberration of P. rapae (Small White)? #UKButterflies

Thank you to everyone who came along to our annual UK Moth Recorders' Meeting last weekend! All the brilliant talks from the day are now available to watch back on our YouTube channel. Grab a cuppa and catch up here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiZE... #UKMRM #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

The 2025 Butterfly Sightings for Yorkshire have now been uploaded to the yorkshirebutterflyatlas.org.uk @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @northyorkmoors.org.uk

The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...

Our latest Activity Report for 2025 is now available on our website. It gives updates on several major projects as well as a report on our Partner meeting in December. We have made good progress but are aware of the huge challenges ahead www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...