Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these ...

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by a coalition of conservation organisations, revealed that 2024 was the fifth worst year since records began for butterflies, with 51 of the UK’s 59 ...

Certain insects - including ladybirds, butterflies and wasps - are thriving after the warmest and sunniest spring on record ...

While the population of one species of butterfly increased by 338% between summer 2022 and summer 2023, butterfly populations have declined overall in the U.K. since the 1970s, according to a ...

An annual butterfly count is under way after it logged the lowest numbers on record last year. There was a 35% decline in ...

The call by Butterfly Conservation comes after the charity declared an ’emergency’ last year following record low counts for ...

Local nursery children join UK-wide butterfly conservation effort as findings show 77 per cent of children in the region are ...

Across the UK, the distribution of 58 native butterflies plummeted 42% from 1976 to 2019, records show, particularly badly impacting habitat specialists, however, efforts are being made to boost ...

A colorful new butterfly species that lives high up in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains has been identified by scientists. Researchers have given the species the scientific name Actinote ...

Consecutive summers with poor weather can push butterflies, and other species, over the edge. Luckily for butterflies, 2025 has been a stark contrast – so far.