James CBR
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James CBR
@jamescbr.bsky.social
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Suffolk County Recorder for Butterflies (VC 25/26). Reporting to Suffolk Naturalists' Society and Butterfly Conservation (Suffolk Branch). 🦋
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Landguard BO in Suffolk is mentioned in the discovery of the Southern Small White in the UK. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
Mediterranean butterfly spotted in the UK for the first time - twice!

Two sightings of the Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) have now been verified - one in Suffolk and one in County Durham. 📍

Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/q7svIE5

📷: Adam Gor
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As the sun was out in Felixstowe, Butterflies seemed a good choice either side of lunchtime for a walk to the butts area Landguard which produced 3 Clouded Yellows 5 Small Copper 1 Small White and a Red Admiral
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Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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What frightens me most about Halloween cobwebs isn’t how they look…..it’s that they catch the living.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.
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The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
Sooo happy you got to see one. They're having a fantastic year. Once a decade we have a bumper season and this is one of those years.
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Lovely sunshine and a few butterflies still fluttering about at Ilketshall St Andrew common and field edges @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
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Press briefing today at IUCN Global Biodiversity Conference, giving results of the new Red List of European butterflies. It’s not good. Full details will be published tomorrow. Watch this space @europebutterfly.bsky.social
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Sat 11th Oct 2025 2.15 pm
Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025
at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ

Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities

See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk
Welcome to Bluesky, it's great to have another hoverator onboard.
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Let's hear it for Ivy!

An often misunderstood plant, but one which has incredible benefits for wildlife. 🦋🐝🐦
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Bit of a Clouded Yellow day at Landguard this p.m. with a walk around the Butts area only producing 19 individuals including 2 Helice females, a single Hummingbird Hawkmoth and 5 Stonechats at the nw end.
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Hello 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.
I suspect it's a male. Drones have longer antennae and abdomens (more segments) than workers or queens. Hard for a non-expert like me to tell with a photo. They're usually very docile if left alone. They even recognise individual people which means you can get even closer once they accept you.
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The Painted Lady (distelvlinder, V cardui) was only seen in low numbers on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects this year. It is a migrant species, and the graphs show that 1996, 2003, 2009 and 2019 had large invasions, the other years just a few managed their way to NL.
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#Southernsmallwhite - Pieris mannii - is still active in my area E of #Ghent, Belgium. This one was in the garden yesterday. It is a typical autumn female; lots of dusting between discal and apical spot, discal spot not confined by the veins and a vague discal spot on hindwing.
#urbanbiodiversity
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....and thats a wrap!

Today is the last day to carry out a survey for the 'core' UKBMS survey weeks. 🤞 the weather has been good enough to fit in your final survey.

Don't forget to get all your data entered by the END OF OCT, otherwise it may not be included in the analysis 📋 📊 Thank you!
I haven't seen many at all this year since early summer. Surprising, since it has been a good year for migrants - more Clouded Yellow than Painted Lady since July in my experience in east Suffolk.
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Painted Lady in #Bath #Somerset #UK. These butterflies make the incredible 9000 mile journey from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle & back each year in around 6 successive generations
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #butterfly
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Its week 26, the final week of our 50th survey season! 🎺 🎉 🦋 🥳

A HUGE thank you to all the fantastic volunteers for walking transects, recording butterflies and entering data this year.

Your efforts greatly contribute to our understanding of butterfly populations and helps us conserve them ❤️
Hard to be certain about the Holly Blue because broods can overlap but, given the early season, it's quite possibly a third generation individual.
Recently, I read about moth caterpillars which tuck their head and necks into their forelegs to reduce pain. People measured nerve activity in the ganglia (mini brains) to confirm this pain sensation exists. Modern micro tech meets biology...🐛
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A growing number of biologists believe that insects could be sentient, and that we must do more to minimise any pain or stress we cause them....

thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...
Six-legged suffering
Are insects sentient?
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk