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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

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

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.

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.

How Meadow Brown butterflies are adapting to global heating - displaying fewer spots. They have been one of the species thriving around here, where much land is left grassy for the (in many other ways destructive) dairy industry.
#butterflies #ButterfliesUK #MeadowBrown #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #wales #cymru

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/18/meadow-brown-butterflies-adapt-to-global-heating-by-developing-fewer-spots?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

a meadow brown butterfly - with its orange upper wing with one eye, and pale brown lower wing - sits feeding on lavender, wings closed

I suspect this Small Tortoiseshell has been around the block quite a while. #today after days of wind and rain, it settled on a wall warmed by the sun, seeming not to have strength to take off while I moved in very close. The last survivor of Aglais urticae this season, I suspect
#InMyGarden #SmallTortoiseshell #butterflies #ButterfliesUK #butterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #Lepidoptera #lepidoptery #AutumnVibes #Gaygardener

#ButterflyWatch

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