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Butterfly Conservation - Cambs & Essex @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social · 4d

BBC News - Rare swallowtail butterfly project trialled at Ipswich farm - BBC News
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Rare swallowtail butterfly project trialled at Ipswich farm

Jimmy's Farm is collaborating with Anglia Ruskin University in an attempt to boost its numbers.

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Butterfly Conservation - Cambs & Essex @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social · 5d

Will frozen Swallowtail eggs be viable? Might this be a suitable conservation strategy for our beleaguered sub-species. ARU is going to investigate
@patrickbarkham.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Butterfly Conservation - Cambs & Essex @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social · 8d

Anecdotally not good in Cambridgeshire either

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Simon Patient @simonpatient1.bsky.social · 9d

2 Clouded Yellows at Gt Wigborough church this morning also 2 Wall Browns, Small Heath and Common Blues still on the wing. 6 + Goldcrests there also. Water levels still dropping at Abberton #essexbirding

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Julian Sidney @butterflyjulian.bsky.social · 10d

Had a iRecord June record redetermined by the Simon, the country recorder to Horehound Long-horn Nemophora fasciella.
A scarce species, distributed mainly in the south and south-east of England, but very local.
Another good garden find.
@mothiduk.bsky.social
#moths
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David Bradley @sciencebase.com · 11d

Mothing has picked up a little, warmer evening (didn't get below 10C here in Cambs for me) #teamMoth 42 of 21 species, including first Beaded Chestnut of the year. Usually arrives on this date give or take a day or two, although was a week earlier in 2021 and 2020, and not till November in 2019

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 12d

If you pick up the Guardian Weekend Magazine today, please read about my daughter Milly’s battle with Lyme disease. And if you’re feeling bold, drop your copy into your local GP. There are thousands of Millys out there. Most are currently not helped at all by the NHS or, worse, not believed.

Photo of page from Guardian Weekend magazine showing Patrick’s 13-year-old daughter Milly and the starting words of a long feature story about her battle with Lyme Disease which was missed by the NHS for years.

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Butterfly Conservation - Cambs & Essex @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social · 12d

Banking on Trumpington Meadows.

One of the best sites for butterflies in Cambridgeshire, has just got better.

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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 12d

🦋Five giant E's have appeared at our Trumpington Meadows nature reserve on the edge of Cambridge. They are helping us understand how we can protect butterflies and other insects from climate change.
youtu.be/iRcItx3z5cI

Helping butterflies tackle climate change - Trumpington Meadows Butterfly banks

YouTube video by Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14d

Very excited to share that I'm writing a new book, THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY - about the loss of England's chalk downland: a tale of flowers, fascism & freedom.

To be published by @wmcollinsbooks.bsky.social in April 2027:
www.thebookseller.com/rights/willi...

Website: ghostsofchalkcountry.org

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James Bashford @wrenandbee.bsky.social · 14d

Here’s a beauty from my Essex garden in August…

A female Spongy Moth (aka Gypsy Moth) 🤍 🖤

#NatureWithin #TeamMoth

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Tagfalter-Monitoring Deutschland @faltermonitoring.bsky.social · 15d

We are happy to share this on a political level very important paper from our team - The Grassland Butterfly Index for Germany. Especially for the last ten years the results show a negativ trend for grassland butterflies in Germany doi.org/10.3897/natu... @pensoft.net @ufz.de #NRR

Development of the German Grassland Butterfly Index 2006-2023, based on German Butterfly Monitoring Scheme data. The annual index values (points) and the smoothed trend with 95% confidence intervals are shown

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Julian Sidney @butterflyjulian.bsky.social · 17d

A couple of hours spent at #greathollandpits today with good numbers of 3rd brood Common Blue and Small Copper on the wing.
@lepimann.bsky.social
#savebutterflies #irecordbutterflies
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ChrisGibsonWildlife @chrismothman.bsky.social · 18d

New Blog
The Wild Side of Beth Chatto Gardens: autumn plenty

www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid...

#NatureWriting

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Jim Hume 🌍🦅🦋 @greyhairstreak.bsky.social · 19d

Clouded Yellow and Wall Brown Butterflies, Great Wigborough, Essex 20/9/25 @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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jonnywhu.bsky.social @jonnywhu.bsky.social · 19d

A Convolvulus Hawk-moth this morning at Backwarden Nature Reserve, Essex. Also Antigastra catalaunalis and Small Mottled Willow. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 20d

Celebrating 50 years of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme! 🎉

Join us for a day of butterfly talks, workshops and a celebration of volunteer citizen science. Book your free place 👉 buff.ly/tsGqc4S

📸: Iain H Leach
#UKBMS50

White Admiral butterfly on bramble flowers

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Matthew Deans @deansmatthew.bsky.social · 20d

Convolvulus Hawk-moth @Bawdsey_Hall last night. @BC_Suffolk @MigrantMothUK

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 20d

Blackberry diversity at Swaddywell NR, a wonderfully rich reserve managed by Langdyke Countryside Trust and located in John Clare's home parish of Helpston, Cambridgeshire...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#johnclarecountryside

Country diary: There’s a bounty of blackberries out there – 350 species of them | Sarah Lambert

Swaddywell, Cambridgeshire: This common plant is surprisingly varied. Late in the season, I venture out to pick what I can

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Butterfly Conservation - Cambs & Essex @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social · 21d

Paxton Pits Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire to treble in size
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Paxton Pits Nature Reserve in Cambridgeshire to treble in size

Having ground to a halt, plans to expand the watery reserve at a working quarry are up and running.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pieter Vantieghem @pietervantieghem.bsky.social · 21d

While I was cleaning up the moth trap this morning a male southern small white was already flying around in the garden. See how the discal spot touches the surrounding veins over a few mm, in male small white this spot is smaller and does not or only barely touch the veins. #butterflyID

Pieris mannii, southern small white male

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · 22d

This graph from @metoffice.gov.uk says it all about this summer's weather. Every month was at least a degree warmer than the average 20 years ago. Butterflies mostly did well but how will the drought have affected them? @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Vic Brown @viccbrown.bsky.social · 22d

About 8 Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies on the Ivy in my S. Cambs garden today. Pleased to see V. atalanta ab. millierei, a genetic aberration that lacks red pigmentation.

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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 23d

We have been described as "THE BEST NGO THAT NOBODY KNOWS ABOUT"

Please help by following us & reposting!!!

A stunning dreamy planty pond. Pond covered in pondweeds

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Butterfly Conservation - Cambs & Essex @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social · 24d

Yes. One of the best in our region. Hotspot for vagrants

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Andy Goodey @andygoodey.bsky.social · 24d

Great Holland Pits reserve, Essex: with brother Brian and Marion. Great visit to this excellent site with highlights, pair of Wall Brown by sand bank where several Sphecodes bees observed in and out of holes. Hobby seen throughout visit hunting over reserve, Willow Emeralds by pond….
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