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James CBR

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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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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · Aug 9

Landguard BO in Suffolk is mentioned in the discovery of the Southern Small White in the UK. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

A Southern Small White feeding on a white flower

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William Brame @landguardbirder.bsky.social · 3d

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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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 15d

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Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published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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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 16d

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.

Downy woodpecker entangled in plastic artificial decorative Halloween spider webs.

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 16d

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?...

Front cover of the European Butterfly Red List, showing Polyommatus humedasae. The report can be downloaded at https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=red-list-butterflies-2025

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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · 17d

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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Sarah @sarahsramblings.bsky.social · 17d

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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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 18d

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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Dave & Margie Carter @davidmargiecarter.bsky.social · 20d

Clouded Yellow at Aldeburgh Town Marshes today. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

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Butterfly Conservation Suffolk @bc-suffolk.bsky.social · 21d

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

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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · 23d

Welcome to Bluesky, it's great to have another hoverator onboard.

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 24d

Let's hear it for Ivy!

An often misunderstood plant, but one which has incredible benefits for wildlife. 🦋🐝🐦

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William Brame @landguardbirder.bsky.social · 27d

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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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Butterfly Conservation's Butterflies and Moths to see in October: Speckled Wood, Brimstone moth, Comma, Frosted Orange, Peacock, Angle Shades, Red Admiral, Light Emerald, and Wall.

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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · 28d

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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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social · 28d

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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Pieter Vantieghem @pietervantieghem.bsky.social · 28d

#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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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 28d

....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!

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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · Sep 26

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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Bath Nature @bathnature.bsky.social · Sep 26

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

Painted Lady - a large butterfly with orange, brown and white markings. Butterfly is on a Creeping Thistle flower

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · Sep 24

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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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · Sep 25

Bird Cherry? #WildFlowerID

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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · Sep 23

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 ❤️

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James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · Sep 20

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.

James CBR @jamescbr.bsky.social · Sep 19

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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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

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