Excellent day in Nottingham celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fabulous @ukbms.bsky.social
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Sat 11th Oct 2025 2.15 pm
Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025
at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ
Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities
See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk
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Is that outside its usual range?
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One seen in North Herts last week, first in our branch area for many years
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A hand wearing a white glove, spraying pesticides over a yellow flower and white butterfly, set against a black background. Large text overlay has the word 'weed' crossed out and 'Butterfly Killer' underneath. Smaller text below reads: 'Call on UK retailers to halt the sale of butterfly-harming chemicals. Sign our open letter.' Butterfly Conservation logo features at the top of the graphic.
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Join us in asking UK retailers to remove synthetic pesticides from sale for a wilder, butterfly-filled future for generations to come π https://butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-mission/
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Help support the rescue mission for #butterflies and moths! π¦ We've partnered with
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to call for #butterfly-killing synthetic #pesticides to be removed from supermarket and garden centre shelves. Find out more in our blog: gardenorganic.org.uk/news/rescue-...
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A Brown Hairstreak butterfly and a fly, both feeding on yellow flowers, bordered by a pale orange rectangle and white text which reads 'Together for Insects'
Want to know how you can help? Have your say on the Big Insect Rescue Plan, our collaborative plan championing your voice and ideas so we can save the insects that our ecosystems depend on, together. π¦
Take part here π butterfly-conservation.org/big-insect-r...
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We need insects, but today, insects need us to take action π¨
We've united with Buglife and @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social to sound the alarm for insects, by launching a Declaration on UK Insect Declines.
Find out more about why itβs so important we speak up now π
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Common Blue butterfly resting on heather against a dark pink background. Text overlay reads 'the results are in' with Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo. Photo credit Matt Berry
The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths π
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
09.09.2025 08:00 β π 60 π 33 π¬ 4 π 4
LANG'S SHORT-TAILED BLUE (Leptotes pirithous), taken in a light trap at Lizard, Cornwall on 7/9. Perhaps the 4th UK record (3rd likely genuine vagrant) #ukbutterflies #savebutterflies
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No obvious environmental experience, tho she was shadow housing minister ten years ago. So letβs hope the environmental movement is able to lobby effectively
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Small heaths in the mood for love at Landguard today #butterflies
05.09.2025 16:34 β π 34 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
So do you think these are second brood Peacocks? There were a few flying here in the heat last week, corresponding to a drop in the number of hibernators. This week none flying and more back in hibernation. Iβm thinking that some just popped out for a late tip up feed
05.09.2025 18:12 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Tax avoidance is unpatriotic.
05.09.2025 09:39 β π 18 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Brown Argus butterflies flying in between the rain showers today. #butterflies
02.09.2025 17:35 β π 30 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
One reported from St Albans yesterday too
02.09.2025 17:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by RSPB
See the UK's smallest butterfly at RSPB Scotland's Culbin Sands reserve
Restoring sites for Small Blue - beautiful new video showing a remote scottish site. Superficially very different from our local sites in Herts, but sharing the key characteristic, low fertility soil
youtu.be/OIzKEZKkL48?...
@bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
30.08.2025 08:38 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
New wildflower meadow on set-aside on edge of our village - painted ladies, common blue and even clouded yellow! So happy to get painted lady flight sequence OM1mk2,40-150f2.8 @royalent.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-westmids.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social
29.08.2025 07:26 β π 49 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
A lovely Dewickβs Plusia. A first for me. Found in my Hertfordshire garden this evening. An immigrant moth & possible recent colonist #teammoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social
23.08.2025 18:01 β π 35 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
This one to light last week in Malaysia
24.08.2025 05:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Wow! An epic sight of 100+ Rajah Brookeβs Birdwing today by our group on tour in Malaysia.
A lot bigger & a lot easier to identify than a Southern Small White in England!
11.08.2025 20:29 β π 160 π 24 π¬ 1 π 2
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