Gardening experts have shared the five flowers that gardeners should plant to keep seeing butterflies in their outdoor spaces this summer.

Responding to the findings on April 2, Richard Fox from Butterfly Conservation said: "I am devastated by the decline of our beloved British butterflies, and I’m sorry to say it has been brought ...

Scientists have discovered a new butterfly species in the Canadian Rockies, they report in ZooKeys. The Satyrium curiosolus, or “Curiously Isolated Hairstreak,” lives up to its name. Although ...

Conservation experts are urging homeowners not to mow their lawns over the coming months to help boost butterfly numbers, with more than half of UK species now in long-term decline. Last year was ...

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by a coalition of conservation organisations, said renowned butterfly species including the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper ...

Monitoring reveals that 2024 was the fifth worst year since records began for butterflies, with 51 of the UK’s 59 butterfly species declining last year compared with 2023, while just six increased.

Researchers claim to have found more than 1,400 species in the guts of Asian hornets. A study from the University of Exeter discovered a grisly buffet of bees, wasps, flies, beetles, butterflies ...

BUTTERFLY numbers are dive-bombing, and nature lovers this summer are being urged to help them survive and thrive. Four in five of our native species have declined since the Seventies, and half are… ...

Some species are built for cool, cloudy days, as you would expect from a British butterfly. A good example is the large white, whose bright wings reflect sunlight.

Books Received Published: 27 June 1925 British Butterflies F. A. D. Nature 115, 975–976 (1925) Cite this article ...

Butterfly species that ‘overwinter’, or spend the colder months in their pupal stage as a chrysalis, require a certain amount of heat to continue developing into adults. This is usually prompted as ...

British rock outfit Sea Girls, comprising Henry Camamile, Rory Young, Andrew Dawson and Oli Khan, celebrate a hat-trick of Top 5 albums as their third studio collection Midnight Butterflies makes ...