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B&Q boost for butterflies
Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is pleased to announce a new partnership with B&Q to encourage customers to take action to help butterflies and other pollinators.
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Is the UK set for a Humming-bird summer?
Is a spectacular Continental moth that acts like a Humming-bird attempting to colonise the UK?
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Titchmarsh - "Plant a pot for pollinators!"
Alan Titchmarsh launches gardening campaign to help pollinating insects
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Help hungry and homeless pollinators
Butterfly Conservation is playing a key role in a project to help our hungry and homeless pollinators.
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Small Copper slumps as butterflies struggle in cold summer
Major annual butterfly survey reveals alarming decline of Small Copper
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Help solve the riddle of back garden butterflies
A new survey aims to lift the lid on the lives of our back garden butterflies
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Retirement of Dr Martin Warren as Butterfly Conservation Chief Executive
Dr Martin Warren announces his retirement as Butterfly Conservation Chief Executive
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40 year slump for UK Butterflies
More than three-quarters of the UK’s butterflies have declined in the last 40 years with some common species suffering significant slumps, a major scientific study has revealed.
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Clifden Nonpareil in Dorset
Has the The Clifden Nonpareil (Catocala fraxini) set up residence right here in Dorset after sightings across the county? -
Mediterranean blue butterfly invades south coast
A striking continental butterfly has emerged on the South Coast in record numbers for the second time in three years...
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Children Shine A Light On Solar Farm’s Wildlife
Children were all a flutter when they made a special visit to one of Dorset’s newest solar farms. -
Help Fill The Butterfly Sighting Gaps In Dorset
Nearly a million butterflies have been officially recorded in Dorset over the last five years, but the Dorset Branch of Butterfly Conservation need your help to fill some gaps on the map!
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Help Us Search For Grizzled And Dingy Skippers
Part of our work is to investigate the reasons behind a lack of sightings. Two butterflies we need your help in finding in the Piddletrenthide/Melcombe Bingham area of Dorset are the Grizzled and Dingy Skipper. -
New Wildlife Site In Poole
An area which was an old school field in Poole has been turned by the Borough Council into a public open space, complete with a wildlife area, a large pond and a wetland area. -
Critically Endangered Butterfly Hits 10- Year High
One of the UK’s rarest butterflies has recorded its best year for a decade thanks to 2014’s warm spring weather and work to restore its habitat, a study has revealed.
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Eight Butterfly Species Now On The Wing In Dorset
Find out which butterfly species have been seen in Dorset to date -
Continental Crusader Conquers British Winter
A spectacular European butterfly has travelled to the UK and for the first time on record, survived the British winter, Butterfly Conservation can reveal.
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Saving Silver At Portland Quarry
Wildlife lovers are needed to help create habitat on Portland for one of Dorset’s rarest butterflies - the Silver-studded Blue - which is in serious decline in the county. -
Hot Chocolate For Caterpillars
An education project aimed at bringing Dorset and Somerset schoolchildren closer to nature has received an important funding boost from the GALAXY Hot Chocolate Fund... -
Pollinators Pushed Up The Agenda
Butterfly Conservation welcomes the Government’s National Pollinator Strategy. The newly published document is a clear steer from Government that the declines in bees and wild pollinators including butterflies and moths are being taken seriously.
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Horror Moth Ghosts In For Halloween
The UK’s scariest moth caused pandemonium in a suburban street after appearing unexpectedly in a back garden, just days before Halloween.
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Globally Endangered Butterfly Needs Your Help As Numbers Fall
One of the UK’s rarest butterflies - the Large Blue - has declined this summer at its Somerset stronghold, Butterfly Conservation has revealed.
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Munching Caterpillars Secure Wessex Watermark Award
Wessex Water have handed over £750 of funds to help support Butterfly Conservation's education project 'Munching Caterpillars'.
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Small Tortoiseshell Fights Back
One of the UK’s favourite butterflies – the Small Tortoiseshell, continued its fight back this summer after years of decline, despite enduring the coldest August since 1993, results from the Big Butterfly Count have revealed.
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Game-changing response required to tackle State of Nature crisis
A year on from the publication of the State of Nature report, Sir David Attenborough joins Butterfly Conservation and our partners to seek out game-changing solutions to the crisis facing nature.
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Searching For Silver In Shaftesbury This Bank Holiday
Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is inviting families to make the most of the final weeks of summer by joining the search for one of our rarest butterflies, the Silver-spotted Skipper. -
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Fire And Brimstones At The Castle
Butterfly Conservation Dorset is asking people to visit historic Maiden Castle near Dorchester to record butterfly sightings.