Following a bad year for butterflies in 2024, it’s more important than ever to take part in this year’s Big Butterfly Count.

Normally seen alone or in pairs, this tiny orange and brown butterfly thrives during warm, dry summers but is in long-term ...

Five butterflies you’ll be lucky to see during Big Butterfly Count - As numbers decline, sightings become more important, ...

More than 140,000 counts were recorded this year. Because of the sheer amount of data, I would say that the low number of butterflies in 2024—by far the lowest ever—shows a very serious result ...

The Small Blue, Cupido minimus, is the UK's smallest resident butterfly with an average wingspan of just two-to-three centimetres. Its caterpillars only eat one plant - Kidney Vetch.

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by a coalition of conservation organisations, said renowned butterfly species including the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper ...

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has revealed that 2024 was one of the worst on record for butterflies. ... the chalk hill blue and small copper suffering their worst year ever.

This happened in the UK after a drought in 1995, when ringlet butterfly populations crashed the following year. It took several years for the species to recover. We saw the same thing with ...