Welcome

We're making learning fun!

We hope there is something for everyone in our Learn website!

You can explore the wonderful world of butterflies and moths here, and discover more about their biology, their life cycles, how they fit into the web of life and how we can help to conserve them for future generations. There are competitions and quizzes to take part in and you can send us your best butterfly and moth pics for our photo gallery.

Teachers: Visit our Teachers' Resources page to find out how the sections of our Learn website can fit in with your teaching scheme and the national curriculum. To extend your knowledge of butterflies and moths and their lifecycles, go to the Introduction for Teachers to the Life-cycles. Browse the downloadable activity sheets for ideas and inspiration. The Images to print section offers colourful photos of some of our most dramatic Butterflies and Moths for children to use for illustrating projects, decoration or other classroom activities.

Children: The games and puzzles in our Play and Learn section are a great way to find out more about butterflies and moths.

Nick Baker, naturalist, broadcaster and a Vice-President of Butterfly Conservation, says:

"For anybody with an interest in Butterflies and Moths, from the early instars of human life through to those imagos that teach them, this is an invaluable website. It gives great guidance and provides an easy to use resource for teachers, with the added bonus of suggested links to the national curriculum.

There are also loads of simple educational games that will help the younger generation get to grips with the basics of butterfly and moth ecology and identification. With a recent survey suggesting that over a third of kids are unable to identify a Red Admiral, this site is a really good first step towards putting this right!"

http://www.nickbaker.tv/

Coming soon

The Learn website is still growing and even more information and resources will be available soon.

Look out for more on butterflies in the web of life; and on their ecology and conservation.

Feedback

We'd love to hear from you! Send us your comments or queries.

Your Photos

If you are an amateur photographer who enjoys taking photos of butterflies and moths, we would very much like to see your pictures on our Photo pages .

Please email your photos to nigelspring@yahoo.co.uk - preferably between 500Kb and 2Mb in size.

Have a look at the Photos link to see the range of images that have been sent in.

Thanks to:

Everyone who has contributed to and supported the development of the Learn section of our website.

Particular thanks to Nigel Spring who wrote most of the text and coordinated the whole project, and to The Ernest Cook Trust for their generous support

Thanks to Karl Rawstrone for the games in the Play and Learn section.

Thanks to David Dennis, Nick Bowles, Peter Eeles, Christine Frost, Martyn Davies, Alan Storey and Peter Newton-Lewis who formed the steering group to develop this project.

Thanks to all the photographers who generously provided their superb photographs.

Thanks to all the teachers who have been so helpful with their advice during its evolution.