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The official account for UK wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation. Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. 🦋
https://butterfly-conservation.org/
Cover photo 📷: White Plume by Matthew Jones
@savebutterflies.bsky.social PinnedThe bad news: #BigButterflyCount is over for another year 😞
The good news: You can still submit the results of any counts done between 17 July and 9 August until the end of this month! 🙌
Submit any pending counts at 👉 https://butrfli.es/3SVFepj
📷: Brian Valentine
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialBulbs make dazzling displays in containers or borders, and they’re also a great source of late winter/early spring nectar for butterflies and moths 🦋 Top 5 bulbs to plant: 🌷 Crocus 🌷 Alliums 🌷 Grape hyacinth 🌷 Winter aconite 🌷 Snake's-head Fritillary 📷: Rob Blanken
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialAre you new to the magical world of moths and want to learn more about moth recording? ✨🦋
Join moth expert Ray Barnett for a free online talk on Sunday 25 October, hosted by Butterfly Conservation Somerset and Bristol Branch and Planet House Productions. Book 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/moths-for-...
@rodshelf.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialSmall copper enjoying some autumn sunshine in Shelf Woods, Halifax, yesterday. #wildlife #nature #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #butterflies @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Hummingbird hawkmoth in our garden @savebutterflies.bsky.social @royalent.bsky.social @swns.com @omsystem.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialLambeth is already making a real difference through their Pollinator Action Plan, creating wildflower projects in allotments and community gardens, planting pollinator-friendly trees, and continuing to reduce the use of pesticides.
Read the full story 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialLambeth Council has become the first London borough to take our Butterfly-Friendly Council pledge 🦋 The pledge recognises the urgent Butterfly Emergency facing butterflies and moths, and sets out Lambeth's commitment to ensuring public spaces like parks and streets are more butterfly-friendly.
@andrewknights.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialA train journey from Cambridge to Brighton this morning, followed by a walk up Whitehawk Hill. At the top, I was treated to some courtship from a pair of Long-tailed Blues on the Everlasting Pea. Several other LTBs were seen. @bcsussex.bsky.social
@nottscoleoptera.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialOctober 3rd, Painted Lady, Vanessa cardui, North-east Derbyshire garden. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Derbyshire #Butterfly
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialCan you help us give moths their moment? 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/moths-matter
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialMoths matter! 📢 Which is why we're on a mission to create the first official Red List of Britain’s Macro-moths Without this formal recognition, species risk being overlooked when national, regional and local decisions about conservation priorities and funding are made. 📷: Rob Blanken
@alanlewiswildlife.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialFisher's Estuarine Moth - Kent - 29/09/26 - saw about 15 of these very local and stunning moths tonight on @savebutterflies.bsky.social survey, with @dartfordtrapper.bsky.social
@rodshelf.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialThe brightly-coloured peacock - voted Britain's favourite butterfly - has a dark side too. Here's one at Stocksmoor Common. #wildlife #nature #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky #fungifriends #ShroomScrolling @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
@gcampbellphoto.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialPine Carpet (Pennithera firmata) - Scotland - September 2026. A scarce moth locally, but in their hundreds in the pine forests of Scotland #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth #gcampbellphoto @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialHello October! Or should that be Moth-tober? 🎃🦋 With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.
@pomscheme.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialPoMS reaches another key milestone with publication of our modelling paper and blog on the eve of the last day of our 10th survey season!! 👏🎉 Thanks as ever to all the volunteers, partners and funders who have made this possible 🙏 🌟 More details below!
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialSpot the moth 🫥
Meet our 'Wonder of the Day', the Merveille du Jour (Dichonia aprilina)!
Its pale green colouring and black markings allow it to blend in perfectly with lichens and mosses.
📷: Clive Jones
#MothMonday #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
@wildlifedan1.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.socialI'm still seeing clouded yellows wherever I go and I think they look even more beautiful against the Autumn colours.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social📷: Lappet - Bob Eade
@savebutterflies.bsky.socialIn the last 120 years, we have lost over 50 species of native moths, and suspect many others are now at risk of extinction 🔴
This autumn, we're taking on a ‘moth-umental’ task to create the first-ever Red List for Britain’s macro-moths, and we need your help 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/moths-matter
@richardfoxbc.bsky.socialReposted by @savebutterflies.bsky.social📣 New paper alert. Latest study by @mingrui-li.bsky.social as part of his PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social on the impact of public access to land on #CitizenScience butterfly recording. 🥾⛔️📋🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
