Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025
Read this article in The Conversation (17 July 2025). Beware, its not all good news.
Where are all the butterflies? Get counting!
Following the results of the Big Butterfly Count 2024, Butterfly Conservation have declared a butterfly emergency and need your help more than ever before. Take part in Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count - a UK wide survey and help assess the health of our environment simply by counting butterflies. Join [...]
Get ready for the Big Butterfly Count: 18 July – 10 August
15 minutes watching nature contributes to this huge citizen science project. Get ready and find butterfly resources in the Muddy Faces shop here.
Conservation traineeship opportunity in Argyll & the Inner Hebrides
Butterfly Conservation is offering an exciting 12-month traineeship opportunity in Argyll & the Inner Hebrides as part of the Species on the Edge programme. The role will be focused on learning biological recording of butterflies and moths with opportunities to work on other species within the wider programme too.
Detective work in Highland Perthshire
Read about how this Butterfly Conservation project with local landowners is supporting populations of three of our rarest butterflies and moths, in this Scottish Pollinators post (16 September 2024).
Where are all the butterflies?
This article in The Conversation (6 August 2024) explores Where are all the butterflies? Possibly in your shed. Read about how the weather, climate and habitat loss impact butterfly populations, and how we can create butterfly havens. ‘Remember: “neat and tidy” usually means “anti-butterfly”’
Join the Big Butterfly Count 2024: 12th July – 4th August
The Big Butterfly Count is a UK-wide survey aimed at helping us assess the health of our environment simply by counting the amount and type of butterflies (and some day-flying moths) we see. Add your data to contribute to conservation science and research. Find out more and access free downloadable [...]
The Butterfly of the Bogs
Read this NatureScot post (7 June 2024) to discover more about a beautiful butterfly that can only live on peatlands – and healthy peatlands at that. If we let our peatlands dry out, the large heath butterfly will have nowhere to live and breed – and that would be very [...]
