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

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.

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

Normally seen alone or in pairs, this tiny orange and brown butterfly thrives during warm, dry summers but is in long-term decline. Favouring heaths, chalk grassland and brownfield sites, their ...

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.

UK butterfly numbers at highest level since 2019. ... with large whites seen 216,666 times and small whites 190,506 times ... Enjoy the very best bits from Glastonbury 2025.

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 ...