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#ButterflyConservation

🌿☕Uplifting when a 🦋 chooses to rest knowing you are safe & friendly 🦋 common name of any lepidopterous insect active in daylight The Old English is buttorfleoge, for butter + fly because people thought 🦋s ate uncovered butter or milk 🥛 @ukbutterflies.bsky.social #butterflyconservation

Tortoiseshell butterfly testing on a hand

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Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US. Nearly one-third of the 342 butterfly species we were able to study declined by more than half. Twenty-two species fell by more than 90%. Only nine actually increased in numbers.

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https://theconversation.com/butterflies-declined-by-22-in-just-2-decades-across-the-us-there-are-ways-you-can-help-save-them-251468

#ButterflyConservation #ProtectPollinators #BiodiversityLoss #NatureAwareness #SustainableEcosystems
(https://t.me/experienciainterdimensional/7723)

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#cricket #TestCricket #PAKvENG #photography #birds #insects #caterpillars #ButterflyConservation
A look at developments in Multan, a link to an important campaign/ petition and a photo gallery.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/01/a-butterfly-elbowing-each-other-with-the-joints-on-their-legs-pushing-and-shoving-to-get-at-the-liquid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Butterflies as a metaphor for what it is for us humans to live, to exist.
Maybe that’s what fascinates me. I see in them our own fragile beauty, whose appearance for so short a time has been anticipated for aeons and watched in awe by the rest of the cosmos.
#butterfly #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyWatch
#butterflyconservation

Painted Lady butterfly feeds on a lavender flower. Its wings are wide open, once bright but now pale orange, and brown blotches, and brown and white corners. Its antennae are still erect, but edges of wings are jagged, bits eaten away by its experiences in battling weather and other creatures

'...collapse in British butterfly populations a “warning from nature” about the resilience of the UK’s ecosystems ... raising concerns about threats to national food security as the planet continues to heat.'
#ButterflyConservation #butterflies #ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/tony-juniper-uk-nature-chief-ecosystem-collapse-as-butterfly-numbers-halve

Butterfly population in Britain halves in 2024.
Tony Juniper #NaturalEngland chair: 'The butterfly data is an early signal of what lies ahead.. a warning from nature as to how far we’ve gone towards taking the resilience out of natural systems.This circles back on people in terms of our food security which depends on that web of life still functioning.'
#nature #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation
#ButterflyWatch #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/tony-juniper-uk-nature-chief-ecosystem-collapse-as-butterfly-numbers-halve

a small tortoiseshell butterfly its orange wings open, with their blue dotted rear edgings, and ‘zebra’ markings on the front edges. It is feeding on clumps of bright purple coloured verbena flowers

We had a blast of summer yesterday, & with it an influx of butterflies into our garden. I was excited to see the only Painted Lady this year, & a Red Admiral - both species Vanessa. I got my phone out & got a quick shot. But when Iooked at the photo the Painted Lady isn’t there! The butterfly here is definitely a Comma!? Maybe the Painted Lady flew off seconds before I pointed my camera?
#butterflies #ButterflyConservation #SaveOurButterflies #Vanessa #Gaygardener #PaintedLady #RedAdmiral

a dark purple buddleia flower, with signs of browning in front of a beech hedge. On the flower are two butterflies feeding with closed wings. One is a Comma, with its ragged wing-edges and the tell-tale white comma mark in the middle. Below it, the other is a red admiral, with black, red and white markings.

The last of my Gatekeepers #inMyGarden this summer, I suspect - while it rested on a dead leaf momentarily I managed to get a quick shot on my phone before it flitted away as Gatekeepers do .
#Gatekeeper #butterlfy #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation #summer

a small Gatekeeper butterfly rests open-winged on a a large brown, dead leaf on the grass. Its wings are orange, brown edgings

Gatekeeper butterflies are amongst the declining species on Uk The changing climate is influencing this, but also here local agricultural practices, including hedgerow management. This week, finally, I’ve spotted a few gatekeepers in the garden and on the lane, like this one resting at the foot of a hedgerow on warm dead foliage after the hedge has been cut for traffic management

#butterfly #butterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #SaveOurButterflies
#gatekeeper

an open-winged gatekeeper butterfly resting on warm dead foliage after the hedge has been cut for traffic management Its wings are orange, an eye spot in the corner of the upper wings. All wings have brown borders.

I’d given up waiting for Small Tortoiseshell butterflies to visit #InMyGarden - assuming the locals had been wiped out. There are much reduced numbers in many places in UK. So this specimen appearing yesterday gave me great joy.
#butterfly #ButterflyConservation #SaveButterflies #ButterflyWatch #SmallTortoiseshell

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly open winged, settled on one of several purple verbena flower heads. The wings are orange with black patches, rings of blue dots on the rear outer edges, ‘zebra’ type row on the front wing edges.

Dark green fritillary on spear thistle. Such brave, strong fliers, but this one was more interested in feeding than flitting away. Let me get close for phone pic. #Scotland #nature #butterfly #wildlife #ButterflyConservation

A largish butterfly with orange and black chequered wings feeding on top of a large purple thistle flower that has a very spiky base - the classic Scottish thistle symbol.

Gatekeeper butterflies are amongst the declining species on Uk -my pic dates to last year, as I have yet to spot any in our local hedgerows. The changing climate is influencing this, but also here local agricultural practices, including hedgerow management.
#butterfly #butterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #SaveOurButterflies
#gatekeeper

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/12/big-butterfly-count-ask-public-track-migration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

an open-winged gatekeeper butterfly resting in a holly hedge. Its wings are orange, an eye spot in the corner of the upper wings. All wings have brown borders.

At last, in this so-called UK ‘summer’, our garden has a four-winged visitor, a lovely Meadow Brown, the first one to come here in July.
#butterfly #butterflies #MeadowBrown #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #GayGardener #GayGardening #summer #Lepidoptera

a meadow brown butterfly viewed from above. Its wings are half open but its markings are clear - thick brown edging to all four wings, orange interior, and the upper wings have a small distinctive ‘eye’ marking near the wing tips. The butterfly is resting on bright green leaves, maybe beech.

For my 1st sighting of Green-veined Whites this year I took a walk from the garden down the lane - behold! I spot a mating pair on the ground.
Female Green-veined Whites mate with several males to increase the number of her eggs. Male Green-veined Whites transfer sperm but also nutrients the female can use to increase egg production & may transfer 15-25% of their body mass to females during mating.
#butterfly #Lepidoptera ##butterflies #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #GreenVeinedWhite

a pair of mating green veined white butterflies on dry earth. the tip of the female’s abdomen is in an upright receptive position

My daily lepidopterological (is that a new word?) activities are truly picking up, as of yesterday.
#InMyGarden not one, not two, but three butterfly species visited me, and two of them gave me the stare: a Red Admiral and a Small White. The third one - a male Orange Tip - was too busy flitting about to look around.
#butterflies #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #RedAdmiral #SmallWhite #OrangeTip #butterfly

Red Admiral butterfly on large serrated leaf. it is open winged, and looking straight at the camera

a small white butterfly on a large green lead. it is facing the camera, its head and eyes, white front legs and antennae clearly visible

Intervening to support declining #butterfly species does work. Good to read about the small pearl-bordered fritillary, vulnerable in Shropshire. Replacing lost habitat helps, like marsh violets for these. Here in NE #Wales Orangetips (my recent pic is black-tipped female) are everywhere, where mustard-garlic plants are left to flourish in hedgerows & so long as these are left to grow wild untouched & not killed off or cut down. #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/10/marsh-violets-key-to-helping-rare-fritillary-butterfly-says-national-trust?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

female ‘orange-tip’ butterfly - which is mottled white with one black spot and black tip on forewings - open-winged feeding on the white flowers of a garlic mustard plant. Luscious tooth-edged green leaves behind.

At last, the first butterfly species in the year to populate our lanes & gardens - the Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines - has arrived here. A female (which has no orange tips, of course) is visiting us today - being 20 April they are later than usual
#Butterfly #ButterflyConservation #SaveOurButterflies #OrangeTip #today #NorthWales #Cymru

a female Orange Tip butterfly feeding closed wing. The upper wing (underside) is white with black spot and tip. The lower wing underside is mottled green and white

Butterflies are an indicator species, meaning they can tell us about the health of the wider environment. 2023 data in UK show continued decline of once common Small Tortoiseshell. I recorded them only in ones and twos in #InMyGarden whereas there wd once be up to a dozen on the lavender. ☹️
#SaveButterflies #SmallTortoiseshell #butterfly #butterflies #ButterflyConservation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/03/small-tortoiseshell-butterfly-population-numbers-england-worst-year-on-record?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

small tortoiseshell butterfly open winged on purple lavender flowers.

On my walk #today I headed for a hedge-lined lane where I knew there would be sun-traps. I thought I might see the first #butterfly this year, drawn by the warmth. Sure enough! Pararge Aegeria - a Speckled Wood - flitting in and out of the hedge. I managed a hasty blurred shot of it when it landed briefly in the undergrowth. #SpeckledWood #butterflies #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #lepidoptery

small butterfly sitting amid fresh green leaves , open winged. Its wings are mid-brown colour, with rows of white speckles.

"There are noticeably fewer #butterflies and #moths for you and I to watch in our gardens, parks and the beautiful #countryside. Butterflies and moths play a vital role in pollinating wild and crop plants including strawberries, cucumbers and apples.."

Three ways #climatechange is pushing butterflies and moths to their limits
https://theconversation.com/three-ways-climate-change-is-pushing-butterflies-and-moths-to-their-limits-222559#Echobox=1709229738

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#ukwildlife
#climatepollution
#citizenscience
#environment
#conservation
#butterflyconservation

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