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Had quite an inquisitive audience while emptying a moth trap in the Forest of Bowland (VC60) yesterday morning! 🐑

The Drinker, Euthrix potatoria, from my #Yorkshire garden last night. #moth

Exciting news as the first adult Dark Bordered Beauty moths have been discovered where their caterpillars were released in the Cairngorms! Part of the @rareinverts6 partnership project to establish new populations of this threatened species in Scotland. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Camped out in the Yorkshire Dales at the weekend to search for Chestnut-coloured Carpet (Thera cognata), a juniper feeder. Poor weather meant that we only had 1 individual to the actinic trap and none to the two MVs. Possibly missed the peak of its flight period. Moth pic: TMW

50 years ago, UKBMS Live Data was developed at Monks Wood NNR. This week, we installed an Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI) system in the adjoining restoration area. Will AMI prove equally valuable in providing much-needed time series for insects? ceh.ac.uk/ukceh-ami-trap…

📢 NEW PhD opportunity: 'Understanding and reversing the decline of moorland moths in the UK' This exciting project with SRUC is co-funded and co-supervised by Butterfly Conservation, and based in Aberdeen. Full details 👉 butrfli.es/48m54Wz Closes: 14th January 2024

NEW! We've created the most comprehensive map of England's #hedgerows to date! 💡 390,000km of hedgerow on field boundaries 📏 Depicts hedgerow length & height (for 1st time!) 🔎 Reveals areas with highest & lowest hedgerow densities Read more: ceh.ac.uk/press/high-tec… 1/🧵

Oviposition preferences and larval survival of the marsh fritillary butterfly: The adverse impact of grazing - doi.org/10.1111/icad.1… #OpenAccess #Euphydryas #Grasslands #MarshFritillary #Conservation Wiley Ecology & Evolution

🔦🐛 Join me on 10th April at 7pm for a FREE online talk about using Ultraviolet light to survey some of our most elusive butterflies 🐛🔦 - BOOK HERE --> shorturl.at/hptS0 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Devon Wildlife Trust

Please share to help #EarlyCareerScientists #FindaPhD #forpeopleforplanet with focus on wet habitats. Lots to choose from! Kelly Redeker @Izzybellaa95 Emily Forbes Hannah McGrath as well as Alistair Boxall from ECORISC CDT are chatting to prospective students this week.

The campaign to save Severus Hill, Holgate, York as a nature reserve by purchasing it from the water company before it is developed has now launched here - crowdfunder.co.uk/p/severushill Help protect rare calcareous grassland and several scarce species of butterfly before it scrubs up.

‘We can help nature recover. From bitterns to beetles, our natural systems can flourish again. Even in light of a changing climate, if we do the right things now, it will make a difference.'💚 Read the report: yorkshirewt.org.uk/StateOfNature #YorkshireNatureReport #WorldEnvironmentDay‌

My latest article on #Northwestnatureandhistory looks at the Large Heath, a butterfly which is currently enjoying a bit of a renaissance in northern England Lancashire Wildlife Trust Chester Zoo North Lancs Wildlife Group Royal Entomological Society Buglife northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2024/06/05/the…

An investigation by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has shown that a volcanic eruption in Iceland caused sulphur dioxide in air across areas of Scotland to spike to levels we likely have not experienced since the 1970s. Find out more in our blog: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media…

It's the final day of #BES2024! Don't miss your last chance to visit us at stand 10 to learn more about our long-term environmental monitoring data and hear from our brilliant scientists about their latest research!

🦋 A new study by JNCC & UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology reveals how atmospheric #NitrogenPollution is affecting butterfly & moth populations across 🇬🇧 bit.ly/JNCCreport775 The data underpinning the study was taken from long-term monitoring schemes such as UKBMS Live Data, highlighting their importance.