Your kindness can kill a bumblebee 💔 📢 Please share! Bumblebee queens are starting to emerge from hibernation. British weather isn’t always ideal and people with the best intentions can cause more harm good. Let’s change that. 🧵1/5

The recording of the Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting 2024 is available to watch now! Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=02Pc6V…

The MOTHS of LANCASHIRE is now printed and is being posted out to all who pre-ordered a copy – if you haven't ordered yours yet you can still get it at the pre-pub price until 31 May bit.ly/3S2k71D Tanyptera Project Lancashire Wildlife Trust Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Zoe Randle Ian Kimber

What a shocking map, no wonder wildlife is in steep decline

For Small Skipper (T sylvestris) and Essex Sk (T lineola) many try to use the underside of the antennae. However for males the difference in androconidial patch on the forewing is much easier to see: short and parallel to the veins in T lineola, long and not parallel sylvestris.

Butterfly Conservation’s #BigButterflyCount is back 🦋🙌 From the 12th July – 4th August, get out for the Count wherever you are and record the butterflies & moths you see. Find out how to take part 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

Recording nature where it matters (adaptive sampling in #citizenscience) improves results of biodiversity modelling - according to our new simulation study in Methods in Ecology and Evolution 🧵 Thomas MondainMonval Simon Rolph The Decide Project besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

A busy few days, with crack of sparrows early mornings! BBC newsround in Manchester on Thursday morning, culminating in Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Big Butterfly Count launch today! Thanks to all at team Butterfly Conservation ! I love working with you all! Cheers! x #BigButterflyCount

Lovely early morning stroll through the streets of London after BBCSundayMorningLive filming. Here's a great spot to do an Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #BigButterflyCount Who'll be the first person to do it here?

Hey! I've just counted 10 butterflies using the Big Butterfly Count app and I thought you'd be interested! bigbutterflycount.org/count/24034520

Hey! I've just counted 5 butterflies using the Big Butterfly Count app and I thought you'd be interested! bigbutterflycount.org/count/24758337

The new Derbyshire moth Website - derbyshiremoths.org is now live and open for your moth enjoyment. Bear in mind there is still further development taking place in the background. @DaNES_Insects Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Zoe Randle @LesEvansHill

The 2025 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Moth Recorders' Meeting is open for booking! The meeting will be held online via Zoom on Saturday 25th January 2025. The programme for the day is being drawn up. To book you place visit butterfly-conservation.org/moths/uk-moth-…

Melanie worked with Oxford Brookes Public Engagement Casper_J_Breuker LYNNEBEC on the Butterflies Under Pressure 'Superpillars Assemble!' activity for young people, one of the learning resources included on the #EducationNaturePark platform 🦋🐛 educationnaturepark.org.uk/resource/super…

The programme for the Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Moth Recorders' Meeting (25 January 2025 via Zoom) is finalised! Check out the line-up here: bit.ly/3Z2MxfE You can book your place from this page: bit.ly/3Z2MOzc We look forward to seeing you there! All welcome!

Moved over to the blue side! Similar Handle - swap underscore for a hyphen. See you there?...

At Uni of Reading we appreciate the urgent and complex challenges around food system transformation, so we are setting up a 'Systems and Futures Expert College' and inviting applications for a new Director (0.3FTE). Deadline 6th Jan, more details here: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

The latest edition of Butterfly Conservation 🦋 E-moth is now available! It includes information on booking for the UK Moth Recorders' Meeting along with other interesting updates and reports. You can view it here: bit.ly/3ZG7qwk

Free webinar with BENHS aexploring the stories behind the latest checklist of the #Lepidoptera of the British Isles. #entomology Royal Entomological Society NBN Trust Buglife AES - amentsoc.org Field Studies Council Butterfly Conservation 🦋 eventbrite.co.uk/e/965163017567

The recording of the Butterfly Conservation 🦋 2025 UK Moth Recorders' Meeting can be found here: bit.ly/43315yr