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

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 ...

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 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.

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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.

President Trump on Thursday is expected to announce that the US has reached a trade deal with Britain, according to a report.

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 ...

The number of small tortoiseshells seen across the UK during the count in 2024 was 74% lower than it was in 2023, and the worst year for this species in the survey’s history.