Rachel Jones

Commentary provided by my miniature survey support (practising his field ID)

16.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black-veined Moth by Butterfly Conservation/Mark Parsons. The image shows a creamy white moth with fine black lines across its wings, perched on a plant stem against a grassy green background

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09.05.2025 09:39 — 👍 21    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0

Habitat management interventions for a specialist mid- successional grassland butterfly, the Lulworth Skipper - Journal of Insect Conservation Evidence-based management is needed to reverse declines in insect abundance. The Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon is a range-restricted and declining species in the UK and northern Europe associated...

If you'd like to read more, you can find the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... or a short blog here: butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

06.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Results support the use of low intensity or frequency management for Lulworth Skipper, and show that cutting or rotovation management could be helpful management tools when managing for this mid-successional species, particularly on sites where grazing is tricky.

06.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Monitoring over four years showed recovery of the habitat was faster on cut plots, but larval occupancy recovered more rapidly on rotovated plots, where plant species diversity was also higher.

06.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Using rotovation and cutting management, we investigated their effects on the height and structure of vegetation containing Tor-grass, the larval host plant for Lulworth Skipper.

06.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This research with Nigel Bourn, @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social, @ilyamaclean.bsky.social, @savebutterflies.bsky.social, @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social and support from National Trust staff and volunteers investigates the effects of rotovation and cutting management on the Lulworth Skipper butterfly.

06.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I've been unsure of what to post first here but thought I'd start with my recent (ish) paper.

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Thank you 😊!

04.01.2025 12:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0