I will be talking at the Wiltshire Butterfly Conservation Branch meeting this Saturday, Middle Woodford village hall, on the new Red List of European butterflies. Climate change is really beginning to bite.

And now for someone who literally has demonised butterflies and moths. Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1562. Brussels museum

‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

Climate change and pesticides have combined to pose a deadly threat to the vivid species. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the fightback Jaime Rojo has been following the fate of the monarch butterfly for more than 20 years. In the process the Spanish photographer has watched one of the planet’s most colourful, flamboyant insect species succumb to the combined onslaught of habitat destruction, climate change, pesticides, drought and wildfires. Its population has crashed in the process. It is a dramatic, disturbing story that will be recognised next month when Rojo is given a highly commended award for his photojournalism at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London. Continue reading...

My latest Blog Post: Commas are always erratic in my garden and a treat to see. So, it was good to find one feeding on the Ivy with several more regular Red Admirals in mid-Sep birdingpooleharbourandbeyond.blogspot.com/2024/09/12-s...

A Hummingbird Hawk-moth out and about in the sunshine. Pensthorpe. #moths#MothsMatter#TeamMoth#ento#UKwildlife

Rather soggy looking Fox moth caterpillar on Corfe Common this morning

I have been monitoring Silver-spotted Skipper (Hesperia comma) eggs at Beacon Hill in Hampshire, southern England for the last 39 years, which may be the longest running butterfly egg count?? The turf was v tall this wet year and egg nos low. Can you spot the 2 in this pic?

What a stunner...the first record of a Clifden Nonpareil from our Peterborough garden. In pristine condition so probably breeding close-by. A species that's been on my wanted list for several years now, so feeling very happy!! #TeamMoth#MothsMatter

Competition now for the last few blooms on the Buddleia in my Corfe Castle garden

#mothtrap#mothsmatter