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

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time ...

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time ...

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.

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 ...

More than half of the UK's butterfly species have populations in long-term decline, a survey has found. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme said that 31 of 59 species have had their numbers fall ...

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.