The Big Butterfly Count takes place ... which clocked up an average of just nine butterflies spotted by participants. This year, a third of the common species of butterflies and day-flying moths ...

The common lilac, Syringa vulgaris ... provides a helpful habitat for butterflies. Small meadow areas are ideal habitat for certain British butterfly species. They can provide both nectar plants, such ...

Mr Griffiths said rare butterflies and common garden species alike had been affected. "The most desperate of the lot is the ...

Richard Fox, from Butterfly Conservation, said he was “devastated” by the declines in British butterflies ... second worst year on record for common butterflies that live in gardens, parks ...

Butterflies often conjure up images of colour, sunshine and warmth but doing this one common act in your garden in May could ...

In 2024, the number of butterflies counted was the lowest since the start of the butterfly monitoring scheme ... and seems to have disappeared from the Netherlands. Sharp decline in common species ...

The index consists of ten of the seventeen grassland butterflies selected by the EU (the other seven are not native to the Netherlands): wall brown, dingy skipper, meadow brown, dusky large blue, ...

During the Industrial Revolution, the light, speckled British peppered moth stood ... in miRNA with his lifelong interest in butterflies, leading him to explore the largely understudied role of miRNAs ...

Milkweed, also known as butterfly weed, is an essential host plant, and the only host plant for monarch butterflies. “Butterflies like bright colors and tend to see things in groups,” Stansel ...

For the half-century since, the butterfly – a symbol of transformation and personal freedom across cultures and eras – has been a motif inextricably identified with the legendary British ...

over half of the British species are in long term decline and it's the first time ever that this has been the case," he said. Mr Griffiths said rare butterflies and common garden species alike had ...