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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 3h

We need more of this, ecological management of road verges. And it could save local authorities money!

Arjan van der Veen 🐝🦟🌳 @aveen.bsky.social · 6h

Lelystad schakelt over op ecologisch bermbeheer: 240 hectare natuurvriendelijk onderhouden vanaf 2026 flevopost.nl/lelystad/lel...

Lelystad schakelt over op ecologisch bermbeheer: 240 hectare natuurvriendelijk onderhouden vanaf 2026

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Mariposa Nature Tours @mariposanature.bsky.social · 9h

Places remain available to join us there in 2026. If booked before 1 Dec 2025, they qualify for our Early Bird discount, automatically taking £150 off the list price of the tour. And the tour generates a donation to support @europebutterfly.bsky.social. 🦋(2/2)

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Butterflies of the Italian Alps & French Mercantour

This tour will suit those who enjoy being surrounded by thousands of easily accessible alpine butterflies at a fabulous time of year, as the burgeoning vegetation in this glorious Italian and French a...

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 2d

The new European Butterfly Red List will be published this Friday at the IUCN Global Biodiversity Conference. Watch this space for the shocking findings

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Mariposa Nature Tours @mariposanature.bsky.social · 2d

Your guides to a feast of fritillaries and a bonanza of blues will be our popular, knowledgeable, and friendly team of Paul Selby & Michele Viganò.

Importantly, like ALL of our butterfly tours, this one generates a donation to support the great work of @europebutterfly.bsky.social. (2/2)

Scarce Fritillary (Euphydryas maturna) © Jon Dunn

Chequered Blue (Scolitantides orion) © Clive Burrows

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BSG Göttingen @bsggoettingen.bsky.social · 5d

Nur noch heute läuft die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung zur EU-Verordnung zur Wiederherstellung der Natur!

Der Index der Grünlandschmetterlinge muss als Indikator ausgewählt werden! @kuehneli.bsky.social @faltermonitoring.bsky.social

Beteiligen ▶️ beteiligung.bundesumweltministerium.de/de/wiederher...

Dunkler Wiesenknopf-Ameisenbläuling (Phengaris nausithous). Foto: Fionn Pape

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 7d

It would be very disappointing if the German government do not adopt the Grassland Butterfly Indicator just because it is going down. They should be taking up the challenge of reversing the decline of pollinators not ignoring this crucial issue to humanity

Stephan Piskol @spiskol.bsky.social · 14d

📢📉🦋Eine neue Studie des @ufz.de
enthüllt den Rückgang beim "Index der Gründlandschmetterlinge".

Vermutlich genau deshalb wollen Bund und Länder den Indikator des Art. 11(2) der #Wiederherstellungsverordnung lieber nicht für Deutschland anwenden.
➡️ www.ufz.de/index.php?de...

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 7d

𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗺𝗻𝗶𝗕𝗨𝗦! 🚌

We've been driving around Brussels in an actual omniBUS because the European Commission has been driving a giant Omnibus of proposals themselves.

When it comes to nature, simplification doesn’t mean easier rules. It means weaker rules.

#HandsOffNature

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 8d

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks for your kind words. In US there is xerces.org who are global as well, and North American Butterfly Association naba.org

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

The Xerces Society is a science-based nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats.

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 8d

It also has a Donate button if you want to support our work saving butterflies and moths across Europe

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 8d

Check out our new website, packed with new features, including updated project and EU policy pages + butterfly species pages with all known hostplants courtesy of Harry Clarke and downloadable country lists. Big thanks to Peter Eeles @ukbutterflies.bsky.social for all his help www.bc-europe.eu

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UKBMS @ukbms.bsky.social · 11d

With 2 weeks until the UKBMS 50th Anniversary conference we're sharing details of the talks and speakers.

We're pleased to welcome Cristina Gonzalez Sevilleja from the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme.

Book your free place here ⬇️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf...

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Dave Grundy @davegrundy.bsky.social · 11d

Part 1 - My 2nd night of trapping on the night of 8th September, 2025 was in Sierra de Gredos at El Pagano, Candelida, Avila Province, Castilla y Leon, Spain, with some lovely habitats & lovely people! Attached are some photo highlights! #teammoth #spanishmoths www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

Always a star on a moth night! - was this Latin - Callopistria juventina at the sheet. - moth-trapping at El Pagano in a retreat near Candelida, Avila Province, Castilla y Leon, Spain on the 8th of September 2025.

Pyralis sagarrai is the Spanish 'cousin' of Pyralis regalis. - moth-trapping at El Pagano in a retreat near Candelida, Avila Province, Castilla y Leon, Spain on the 8th of September 2025.

Here are some of the wildlife group enjoying the moths attracted to the sheet, plus a look at the stars! - moth-trapping at El Pagano in a retreat near Candelida, Avila Province, Castilla y Leon, Spain on the 8th of September 2025.

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Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social · 11d

An unforgettable day with my @mariposanature.bsky.social group.

I found Desert Babul Blue on the European mainland!

There are a mere handful of past claims of it - this is an African species that's an ultra-rarity in Europe. I'm in a state of some shock.

#butterflies @europebutterfly.bsky.social

Desert Babul Blue (Azanus ubaldus) © Jon Dunn

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11d

The idiom "like a moth to the flame" dates to at least the 12th century, to Persian love poem "Layla and Majnun". Shakespeare references it in "Merchant of Venice."

But here's the thing. Moths DON'T fly to flames. And we're just now understanding that.

Let's talk about dorsal light response.

a picture of a mosquito killer hanging from the ceiling with the caption i can 't help it it 's so beautiful

Alt: a picture of a mosquito killer hanging from the ceiling with the caption i can 't help it it 's so beautiful

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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 14d

Brilliant analysis from our German partner. The Grassland Butterfly Index GBI is one of the ways that Member States can assess to health of agro-ecosystems under the new EU Nature Restoration Regulation. We hope that Germany adopts this now they have such good data.

Tagfalter-Monitoring Deutschland @faltermonitoring.bsky.social · 14d

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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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 13d

In the pilot scheme supported by @jncc.bsky.social, moth traps were used alongside e-Surveyor, an AI-based identification app that helps farmers without specialist knowledge record #biodiversity on their land

www.ceh.ac.uk/data/e-tools...

e-Surveyor

e-Surveyor is a free mobile app that helps farmers and landowners to monitor the quality of habitats on their land. The app was developed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 13d

Moths matter on farmland and we're working with farmers to help track them 🦋

This growing network of #biodiversity monitoring will lead to new insights into how nature is faring in agricultural areas.

🔗 In a new blog post, @abigaillowe.bsky.social explains more:

www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

Gold spot moth sitting on the rim of a container

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Melanie Brien @melbrien.bsky.social · 14d

Funded PhD position available 🎉 Come and work with me in Helsinki to uncover the pathways producing colourful tiger moth wings. Lots of options for genomics, CRISPR, fieldwork, behaviour experiments… Email with questions! jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Wood tiger moth on leaf. Photo: Juhani Maamela.

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

This important study takes a bit of reading to get the nuances. It’s hard to believe there has been no overall decline because of previous studies on UK Leps, but it seems like climate change is creating as many winners as habitat losers. Perhaps because UK is in N Europe where sp can still spread?

Rothamsted Research @rothamsted.bsky.social · 16d

📣New Study: Collapse in UK insect populations may be overstated, but local communities are being reshaped by CC & development 🐝🪲🦋🦗🪰🐞@btobirds.bsky.social @uor-research.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/insects...

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Thijs Fijen @thijsfijen.bsky.social · 13d

We need much more semi-natural habitat (6-37%, depending on species group) in agricultural landscapes to effectively conserve pollinators. Large collaborative synthesis study looking at 59 studies in 1250 landscapes from 19 countries now published in Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.bsky.social · 12d

www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

Veel meer natuur nodig om nuttige insecten voor de landbouw te behouden

Regels van de EU die tot herstel van de insectenpopulatie moeten leiden zijn ontoereikend, blijkt uit Wagenings onderzoek dat donderdag gepubliceerd is in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Science.

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Dave Grundy @davegrundy.bsky.social · 12d

Today, there was a meeting of moth enthusiasts at the University of Murcia, Spain as in this photo - 25th of September 2025! In the photo below; from right to left, Rosa M. Rubio, Antonio Ortiz, Dave Grundy, John Girdley, Juan José Guerrero Fernández & José Luis Yela! #teammoth #spanishmoths

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Asociación ZERYNTHIA @asoczerynthia.bsky.social · 13d

Este verano, viajamos a la isla de El Hierro para estudiar al Sátiro de El Hierro #MariposaDelAño 2025

Durante nuestro trabajo, tuvimos la oportunidad de aparecer en Radio Televisión Canaria, hablando sobre su fragilidad y la importancia de conocerla y protegerla.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALJZ...

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 14d

💚 The EU Nature Restoration Law has been nominated for the prestigious World Future Policy Award, the global prize celebrating policies that make a real difference in people’s lives!

⏰ Stay tuned on October 11 to find out the winner during the IUCN World Conservation Congress!

#RestoreNature

World Future Council @worldfuturecouncil.org · 15d

🌍 13 finalists announced for the 2025 World Future Policy Award! These laws put #Nature & #FutureGenerations at the centre of decision-making.

🏆 Winners revealed at @IUCN Congress, Abu Dhabi

🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/inHarmonyWit...

Living in Harmony with Nature and Future Generations - World Future Council

Living in Harmony with Nature & Future Generations: Explore the world’s leading policy prize for sustainable, future-just governance

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