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Butterfly Conservation Devon @bcdevon.bsky.social · Aug 9

The last weekend of this year’s #bigbutterflycount 🦋

That’s still so much time to head out and do one (or multiple) 15-minute counts this weekend!

#savebutterflies #butterflyconservation #devonbutterflyconservation #mothsmatter

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Butterfly Conservation Devon @bcdevon.bsky.social · Aug 7

Woohoo!

Devon is now the county that has carried out the most surveys during this year’s #BigButterflyCount 💚🎉

Keep counting; you have until the 10 August!

Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Aug 7

In a turn of events, Hampshire has fallen behind and Devon is speeding ahead with over 5,000 counts submitted in the #BigButterflyCount so far!

Get your county on the leaderboard and help us find out how butterflies and moths are faring across the UK 👉 bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count County Leaderboard, featuring the top five counties with the most submitted counts. Devon in first with 5,051 counts, Hampshire in second with 4,690 counts, Kent in third with 4,361 counts, Norfolk in fourth with 3,382 counts, and Lancashire in fifth with 2,783 counts.

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Jul 27

Big Butterfly Count week one in photos 🤩

Thank you for sending in all your fabulous photos, we love seeing what butterflies and moths you're finding during your counts!

The #BigButterflyCount runs until 10 August, so there is still plenty of time to get out and count.

Speckled Wood butterfly lands on someone's hand as they enter their count into the Big Butterfly Count app

Painted Lady butterfly feeding on a pink scabious flower

Large White butterfly resting on a bright pink flower

A Red Admiral butterfly resting for a moment on a person's finger in a sunny courtyard

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Butterfly Conservation Devon @bcdevon.bsky.social · Jul 25

Well done to everyone both in Devon and further afield who has been taking part in the #BigButterflyCount 🎉🦋

Keep counting, you have until the 10 August.

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Jul 25

Introducing the #BigButterflyCount County Leaderboard! 🏆

Hampshire are currently smashing it out of the park with an impressive 2,316 counts submitted so far, but Devon are hot on their heels.

Which county will be crowned citizen science champions?

Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count County Leaderboard, featuring the top five counties with the most submitted counts. Hampshire in first with 2,316 counts, Devon in second with 2,101 counts, Kent in third with 1,844 counts, Lancashire in fourth with 1,514 counts, and Norfolk in fifth with 1,432 counts.

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Dan Hoare @djhbutterflies.bsky.social · Jul 10

🌿🐛🦋📢 Two exciting new Peatland Project Officer jobs with @savebutterflies.bsky.social in northern England! Adventurous ecologists wanted to investigate how Large Heath and other butterflies & moths can benefit from extensive peatland restoration. butterfly-conservation.org/jobs

Large Heath butterfly (Coenonympha tullia), a brown butterfly with a row of black eyespots along the wing edge, rests on a green flower bud. Photo by Peter Eeles. Butterfly Conservation.

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Butterfly Conservation Devon @bcdevon.bsky.social · Jul 17

Tomorrow is the day! 🦋🎉

It’s the start of the Big Butterfly Count.

Between the 18 July - 10 August, spend 15 minutes recording the butterflies that you see.

1️⃣ Download the Big Butterfly Count App

2️⃣ Register

3️⃣ Get Recording

#savebutterflies #bigbutterflycount

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Meadow Brown was the second most counted butterfly in last year’s #BigButterflyCount with 177,844 sightings 🦋👀

You don't have to be an expert to help butterflies and moths! Get ready to count from this Friday 18 July to Sunday 10 August.

📷: Miles Attenborough

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · Jul 15

3 days until #BigButterflyCount 2025 lifts off! 🦋

The Large White took the third spot in last year's count with 138,424 sightings, down 38% from 2023.

📷: Mark Searle

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Ed Horncastle @edhorncastle.bsky.social · Jun 26

Only a handful of purple hairstreaks out this evening at my local Hotspot. Hoping for many more in the next few weeks. Surprised to see this very confiding female low down on the bracken. Taken with my phone. Closest Ive been to one. Beautiful! @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcdevon.bsky.social

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Philip Chambers @philipchambers1.bsky.social · Jul 4

A Yellow-legged Clearwing sitting on a roadside hedge this afternoon. Delighted 🙂

@bcdevon.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
#moth #moths
#teammoth
#mothsmatter

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Philip Chambers @philipchambers1.bsky.social · Jun 12

Peacock caterpillars going to work on some nettles.
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#peacockbutterfly
#butterfly #butterflies
#caterpillars

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Emma Whitfield @emmawhitfield.bsky.social · Jun 11

Visit to Aish Tor on Dartmoor to see the fritillaries which didn’t disappoint, though it was difficult to tell the High Browns from the Dark Greens - had to be patient to get underwing photos. Also saw a Small White & a few Brimstones.
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Ed Horncastle @edhorncastle.bsky.social · Jun 11

All three of the larger fritillaries out now on Dartmoor and I love them! @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcdevon.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Silver-washed fritillary my first of the year.

Is this a female can't see and sex glands

Beautiful underside of the High Brown fritillary

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Philip Chambers @philipchambers1.bsky.social · Jun 9

Cool enough today to get excellent views of these Dartmoor High Brown Fritillary.
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
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#butterflies #butterfly

High Brown Fritillary, upperside. The 3rd dot from the top is tiny compared to the others. A useful ID feature

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Steph Murphy @stephmurphy.bsky.social · May 31

High Brown Fritillary on Aish Tor, Dartmoor. One of 5 seen. Beautiful! @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @bcdevon.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Ed Horncastle @edhorncastle.bsky.social · May 29

High Brown Fritillaries out today on Dartmoor. Many were so fresh they weren't dry and fully orange yet. Still a bit crinkly. A fantastic vibrant butterfly which bombs all over the bracken hillside. @bcdevon.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Fresh High Brown not fully straightened out and orange yet

Crinkly high brown underside. You can still see the high brown spots that give the butterfly it's name.

Amazing vibrant orange. One of my favourite butterflies especially when so freshly emerged.

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Butterfly Conservation Devon @bcdevon.bsky.social · May 27

Recently, we were sent these wonderful shots of a pair of mating Eyed Hawk-moths from a North Devon supporter.

Don’t forget to record your butterfly and moths sightings via the iRecordButterflies app.

#devonbutterflyconservation #savebutterflies #mothsmatter

Image shows a pair of Eyed Hawk-moths mating in a tree

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Ed Horncastle @edhorncastle.bsky.social · May 23

Marsh fritillaries on Dartmoor. Quick trip after clocking off work a little early. @bcdevon.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social All part of a count for @savebutterflies.bsky.social

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Philip Chambers @philipchambers1.bsky.social · May 26

Comma caterpillar. One to keep an eye on as it will become, hopefully, even better. 3rd instar? @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
@bcdevon.bsky.social
#caterpillar #caterpillars
#commabutterfly
#butterflies #butterfly

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · May 8

Happy 99th Birthday to our President, the legendary Sir David Attenborough 🎂🦋

Thank you for being an inspiration to millions across the globe.

Sir David Attenborough in a blue shirt, smiling while holding up a butterfly on his hand

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martinswarren.bsky.social @martinswarren.bsky.social · Apr 29

Delighted to see good numbers of Pearl-bordered Fritillary on Dartmoor yesterday. At least 50 in an hour at Aish Tor. They seemed to like egg-laying in the cut bracken areas which had abundant small violets. They rarely lay on the violet but often nearby, inc Honeysuckle! @bcdevon.bsky.social

Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterfly egg-laying on honeysuckle in dead bracken litter

Pearl-bordered Fritillary egg-laying on young violet in dead bracken litter

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Gavin Deane @gjdeane.bsky.social · Apr 1

This Engrailed was another crisp, fresh-looking visitor to the outside of my kitchen window last night. And my Orange-tip chrysalis from last year is definitely turning more orange now. That colour wasn't there a few days ago. #teammoth @bcdevon.bsky.social

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Steph Murphy @stephmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 11

Pearl Bordered Fritillary on the wing at Ramshorn Down, Devon. Approx 6-7 seen in the afternoon sun @bcdevon.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Butterflies

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Ed Horncastle @edhorncastle.bsky.social · Apr 20

Took my neice for her first butterfly count for @savebutterflies.bsky.social 17 pearl bordered fritillaries in 20 minutes even though it was overcast. We had a great time @bcdevon.bsky.social

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Philip Chambers @philipchambers1.bsky.social · Apr 22

Pearl-Bordered Fritillary from Ramshorn Down, Devon. I think there were 7, but not a single other species seen there.
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