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Springing into spring like 🍃 Moths come in many different shapes and sizes! Just take a look at the majestic Green Longhorn (Adela reaumurella) 📸 : Tim Melling #MothsMatter #MothMonday

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Getting out in the garden this weekend? One of the best things you can do for butterflies is to let your lawn grow wild! 🌱🌼 Pledge to be a grower, not a mower, this summer and get a free guide on how to manage your lawn for butterflies 👉 buff.ly/bbgCDjn #GrowDontMow #ButterflyEmergency

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Pearl Bordered Fritillary on the wing at Ramshorn Down, Devon. Approx 6-7 seen in the afternoon sun @bcdevon.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Butterflies

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Missed this year's UK Butterfly Recorders’ Meeting? All the brilliant talks from the day are now available to watch back on our YouTube channel! 🙌 Grab a cuppa and catch up 👉 buff.ly/P6tEyYg 📷: Chris Stamp #UKBRM #SaveButterflies #UKBMS50

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Look out for the dazzling Green Hairstreak (Callophrys rubi) this month 💚 These tiny butterflies are now on the wing with the first spotted on the 26 March in Derbyshire. Lots more first butterfly sightings are coming in now! Keep up with them as they happen 👉 butrfli.es/47pkQyC

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🦋 MY FIRST BUTTERFLY TRANSECT OF 2025: The weather was perfect & my hopes were high & I was not disappointed. This time last year, I saw a big fat zero, today, a delightful 52! Saw 7 Small Coppers, my 1st of the year #butterfly #smallcopper @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Grizzled Skipper (Pyrgus malvae) had its worst year on record in the UK in 2024. It numbers at @ukbms.bsky.social monitored sites have been below average now in 20 of the last 25 years. Since 1976, its population has decreased by 49% (📷Mark Searle)

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The latest data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has shown that 2024 was the worst year on record for the Small Tortoiseshell, with a steep 86% decline in abundance since 1976. 📉 📷: Iain H Leach #ButterflyEmergency @ukbms.bsky.social

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Such joy to see Green Hairstreaks on the moorland at Broughton Sanctuary, including this mating pair on Cross-leaved Heath. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Peacock butterfly on willow. #butterfly #springwildlife @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

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First report of a Grizzled Skipper at @hertswildlifetrust.bsky.social #WaterfordHeath today by Nathan Ellis. Full report www.hertsmiddx-butterflies.org.uk/news.php @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Do you want to help improve the fortunes of some of the UK’s rarest insects? Rare Invertebrates in the Cairngorms is hiring a Project Officer to join their team! 🔗 Find out more : bit.ly/cc-jobs-and-... 🗓️ Apply by Friday the 25th of April @cairngormsnews.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Another widespread & common butterfly that is now in long-term decline (-30% since 1976) in the UK after a disastrous, worst-on-record year in 2024 is Large Skipper (Ochlodes sylvanus) www.ukbms.org (📷Mark Searle)

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One of the big shocks of last year’s UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme results was that, after its worst year on record in 2024 and a run of six below average years, Green-veined White (Pieris napi) is now in long-term decline. Numbers have dropped 28% at monitored sites since 1976.

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2024 was one of the worst years for butterflies according to @savebutterflies.bsky.social alongside 2024 being the worst year for #bumblebees

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Look out for The Streamer (Anticlea derivata) this April 🤩 The name refers to the black marking streaming from the leading edge. Caterpillars feed on Dog-rose and possibly other species of wild Rose. 🐛 📸: Patrick Clement, Garry Barlow, David Green #MothMonday #MothsMatter

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Small Copper (Lycaena phlaeas) is another species that had its worst year on record in the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme results for 2024. It’s also another widespread & common species that’s in serious long-term decline: -44% UK trend since 1976 (incl Eng -41%, Scotland -51%, Wales -55%)

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Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary (Boloria selene) is really struggling in the UK, having lost almost three-quarters of its population since 1976 (72% decrease). Its numbers have been below average in 25 of the last 27 yrs and it had its worst year on record in 2024 at UKBMS sites. (📷Mark Searle)

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Time to dive into the 2024 @ukbms.bsky.social results. Small Tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae) had its worst year since monitoring began. This was also the case in each of the 4 UK countries separately. It’s had 10 below average years in a row now and has declined by a staggering 86% since 1976.

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This is a dandelion appreciation post 💛 Often overlooked, the humble dandelion has a vital part to play in providing valuable nectar for early butterflies and moths, as well as food for their caterpillars. 📷: Small Tortoiseshell - Sophie Hall 📷: Brimstone - Tamás Nestor #DandelionAppreciationDay

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Let it grow! 🌱🦋 Research shows that letting parts of your garden grow wild with long grass can increase butterfly numbers up to 93% and attract a wider range of species. Pledge to put away the lawnmower this summer 👉 buff.ly/J1NR7gU #ButterflyEmergency #GrowDontMow

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The simplest thing you can do to help butterflies this summer is grow your grass long to help species that have been reduced by up to 86% since 1970. Dr Richard Fox from @savebutterflies.bsky.social tells @stevehreports.bsky.social on @lbcnews.bsky.social.

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Butterflies need wilder parks and gardens. Will you promise to let your lawn grow long for butterflies in your community this summer? 🦋🐛 Take the pledge 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/make-your-pr...

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Chatting live on BBC Look East about what you can do to help @savebutterflies.bsky.social tackle the butterfly emergency by letting the grass grow this summer 🦋🌱

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Busy day of media interviews spreading the news of the @ukbms.bsky.social officially dreadful year for UK butterflies in 2024. 51/58 species declined, with common species having their 2nd worst year on record butterfly-conservation.org/make-your-pr... 🌍

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Butterflies are sounding the alarm for nature 🚨🦋 2024 was one of the worst years on record for UK butterflies. If we are to restore nature and save our butterflies and moths we must act now. Pledge to grow, not mow, this summer 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/make-your-pr... #ButterflyEmergency

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If you are BBS volunteer and you took part in the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey on your square last year, thank you very much! You have contributed to these data. More about the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey here: www.bto.org/our-science/... @ukbms.bsky.social

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NEWS: 🦋 2024 was one of the worst years on record for UK #butterflies, according to the latest figures from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme @ukbms.bsky.social It was the fifth worst year since records began in 1976. See the official UKBMS figures ➡️ ukbms.org/official-sta... 🧵🧪 1/

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I’ll be growing wild for butterflies, will you? We are in a #ButterflyEmergency. Over half the UK’s butterflies are in long-term decline, they urgently need action from us all. Take @savebutterflies.bsky.social pledge to grow not mow this summer 👉 www.butterfly-conservation.org/make-your-promise

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Where did all the butterflies go? 🚨🦋 Newly released data has revealed that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies in the UK, and more than half of butterfly species are now in long-term decline. We are in a #ButterflyEmergency.

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Join us in protecting the Marsh Fritillary in Wales 🦋 The Marsh Fritillary is declining in Wales due to habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation, but together we can turn things around for this iconic butterfly. Find out more at 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/conservation...

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WEEK ONE! The UKBMS surveys officially kicks off today, and this is also the start of our 50th survey season 🥳 #UKBMS50 If you're taking part, check the weather and choose a good day for your first survey. Haven't signed up yet? Find all the details here: buff.ly/w5TrCLD 📷 : Martin Warren

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This month brings a flutter of spring butterflies and moths to look for in your gardens and local green spaces 🌷🦋 What have you seen recently? Keep tagging us in your butterfly and moth sightings 📷 #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter

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First #HollyBlue of this season. #Butterflies 🦋 @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Happy #MothMonday! The Oak Beauty lives up to its name, with large, feathered antennae and beautiful mottled patterns on its wings which help it blend in with the trees it lives in. 🤩🌳 📷: Hannah Rowsell, Philip Barry Forsyth, Mark Parsons #MothsMatter

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How great is this photo in the latest #Butterfly @savebutterflies.bsky.social magazine! 😍 🤣 @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social Love it #moths 🦋

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The Spring edition of Butterfly magazine has landed with our members 🙌 Features include 50 years of butterfly monitoring, how to help in a Butterfly Emergency, moth migrations, and more! Become a member today to get your copy 👉 butrfli.es/2X3U7oi 📷: Andrew Fusek-Peters @ukbms.bsky.social #UKBMS50

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The arrival of Spring has brought two more first sightings for 2025! 🦋 The first Orange-tip (Anthocharis cardamines) was spotted on the 20 March in Cambridgeshire, and the first Green-veined White (Pieris napi) on the same date in Sussex, Lincolnshire, Warwickshire and Suffolk. 📷: Bob Eade

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Did you miss our Zoom talk? Well its now online! 10 years have passed since Andrew Wood wrote “The Butterflies of Herts & Middx’. In this talk Andrew discusses the extent of change in butterfly populations in the 2 counties over the last decade. @savebutterflies.bsky.social youtu.be/U5M_fmUNkuk

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