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Butterflies

August 2024

  • Ben Masters shot in a wildflower field

    Self and wellbeing
    My dad’s dying gift to me: a love of butterflies

  • A peacock butterfly

    Science Weekly
    What’s happened to all the butterflies? – podcast

  • A small tortoiseshell butterfly on lavender

    The age of extinction
    ‘This year has been dead’: where have Britain’s insects gone?

  • Marbled white butterfly and bumblebee on a purple thistle during summer.

    The Guardian view on nature-friendly farming: England’s green subsidies are working

  • Startling genome discovery in butterfly project reveals impact of climate change in Europe

  • The frogs may be gone, but life goes on: how I regained my faith in gardening for wildlife

July 2024

  • A peacock butterfly

    Butterflywatch
    Where have all Britain’s garden butterflies gone?

  • A large white butterfly sitting on a yellow flower

    ‘Warning sign to us all’ as UK butterfly numbers hit record low

  • A small heath butterfly resting on a grass panicle

    Country diary
    Country diary: An alarmingly bad day searching for butterflies

  • Tony Juniper

    Where are all the butterflies this summer? Their absence is telling us something important

    Tony Juniper

  • As British butterflies head north, scientists ask public to help track migration

  • Specieswatch
    Specieswatch: Jersey tiger moth heads north as climate heats up

  • ‘Not just for fuddy-duddies’: interest in moths booming as species struggle

June 2024

  • Meadow grass flowers © Maria Nunzia @Varvera

    Country diary
    Country diary: The grass is up – and so is the pollen count

  • A cabbage white caterpillar on a nasturtium flower. They’re keen on brassicas, says David Cordingley.

    Brief letters
    All cabbage whites great and small – oh lord, gardeners hate them all

  • An image taken from a video released by the Just Stop Oil climate campaign group shows activists spraying orange powder paint at Stonehenge in Wiltshire.

    Brief letters
    Get mad about the continuing use of oil, not harmless orange powder paint

  • Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, launches manifesto on 17 June

    Brief letters
    Imagine there’s no Farage, it’s easy if you try

May 2024

  • A butterfly with charcoal, cream, blue and red wings feeds on a pink flower in a meadow

    Butterflywatch
    Butterflywatch: swallowtail emerges again in Norfolk despite winter floods

    UK’s largest butterfly remains very vulnerable after worst summer since scientific counting began
  • A brimstone (Gonepteryx rhamni) in flight.

    Young country diary
    Young country diary: Biking along with a brimstone

    East Sussex: I gripped my handlebars tight, pedalling quickly, trying to catch this butterfly with its fascinating yellow colour
  • Small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly

    The age of extinction
    Mass planting of marsh violets key to saving rare UK butterfly, says National Trust

    Trust aims to boost colonies of small pearl-bordered fritillaries by planting 20,000 violets for their caterpillars in Shropshire Hills
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