#butterflywatch — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/01/a-butterfly-elbowing-each-other-with-the-joints-on-their-legs-pushing-and-shoving-to-get-at-the-liquid?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Butterflies as a metaphor for what it is for us humans to live, to exist.
Maybe that’s what fascinates me. I see in them our own fragile beauty, whose appearance for so short a time has been anticipated for aeons and watched in awe by the rest of the cosmos.
#butterfly #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyWatch
#butterflyconservation

Butterfly population in Britain halves in 2024.
Tony Juniper #NaturalEngland chair: 'The butterfly data is an early signal of what lies ahead.. a warning from nature as to how far we’ve gone towards taking the resilience out of natural systems.This circles back on people in terms of our food security which depends on that web of life still functioning.'
#nature #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation
#ButterflyWatch #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/20/tony-juniper-uk-nature-chief-ecosystem-collapse-as-butterfly-numbers-halve

Gatekeeper butterflies are amongst the declining species on Uk The changing climate is influencing this, but also here local agricultural practices, including hedgerow management. This week, finally, I’ve spotted a few gatekeepers in the garden and on the lane, like this one resting at the foot of a hedgerow on warm dead foliage after the hedge has been cut for traffic management

#butterfly #butterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #SaveOurButterflies
#gatekeeper

I’d given up waiting for Small Tortoiseshell butterflies to visit #InMyGarden - assuming the locals had been wiped out. There are much reduced numbers in many places in UK. So this specimen appearing yesterday gave me great joy.
#butterfly #ButterflyConservation #SaveButterflies #ButterflyWatch #SmallTortoiseshell

Gatekeeper butterflies are amongst the declining species on Uk -my pic dates to last year, as I have yet to spot any in our local hedgerows. The changing climate is influencing this, but also here local agricultural practices, including hedgerow management.
#butterfly #butterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #SaveOurButterflies
#gatekeeper

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/12/big-butterfly-count-ask-public-track-migration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

At last, in this so-called UK ‘summer’, our garden has a four-winged visitor, a lovely Meadow Brown, the first one to come here in July.
#butterfly #butterflies #MeadowBrown #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #GayGardener #GayGardening #summer #Lepidoptera

I suspect this Small Tortoiseshell has been around the block quite a while. #today after days of wind and rain, it settled on a wall warmed by the sun, seeming not to have strength to take off while I moved in very close. The last survivor of Aglais urticae this season, I suspect
#InMyGarden #SmallTortoiseshell #butterflies #ButterfliesUK #butterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #Lepidoptera #lepidoptery #AutumnVibes #Gaygardener