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July 28, 2022
Campaigners hoping to protect a green space near Norwich have found a new way of preventing development on the park - in the form of butterflies.
July 19, 2022
Families in Dorset can help the butterflies that go fluttering by taking part in a nature survey.
July 19, 2022
Families in Dorset can help the butterflies that go fluttering by taking part in a nature survey.
July 15, 2022
With two-fifths of British butterflies under threat of extinction the colourful insects need our help more than ever.
June 14, 2022
Melanie Dool’s gardening column in association with Orchardstown Garden Centre THERE is a lot of talk about declining insects and pollinating types in…
May 26, 2022
New report reveals which Norfolk butterflies are under threat.
January 5, 2022
Josef Reichholf brings a lifetime of scientific experience & expertise to bear on one of the great environmental catastrophes of our time in his new book The Disappearance of Butterflies.
October 7, 2021
A wildlife charity warns that we must act now if we are to save Scotland’s butterflies and moths after worrying statistics are revealed today
May 11, 2021
“I was looking at some of the fantastic animal books we have and I was going through the pages of the wonderful Theatre of Insects, or Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum to give it its true title . . . While looking through our copy I chanced upon a butterfly (a small tortoiseshell I think) next to its accompanying image. There is a striking similarity between the woodcut and butterfly, which of course was the intention so that the various species could be identified by the amateur ...
January 20, 2021
Their wings. with stiff wings, they can roll theirwings. somehow, with stiff wings, they can roll their wings. somehow, we dont know how they flex their wings, but they can curve them as they fly, and that means that they can effectively swim through the air and push the air backwards, a bit like you do in a swimming pool when you swim. but this research has really shown us how they have got the evolutionary edge, because a lot of things out there want to eat butterflies, birds and so on, and th...