with 51 of the UK’s 59 butterfly species declining last year compared with 2023, while just six increased. Species including the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper ...

Anyone who has butterflies in their garden has been asked to take urgent action after worrying new figures showed numbers ...

A Dunnet Community Forest project supporting the rare small blue butterfly is getting national attention this weekend on the ...

A volunteer for national charity Butterfly Conservation counted a "staggering" 523 Small Blues in just an hour-and-a-half at the Balnagown Estate near Invergordon, while other volunteers have ...

Garden owners are being urged to avoid mowing their lawns until September, as more than half of the UK's butterfly species ...

has also revealed that 2024 was one of the worst on record for butterflies in the UK with species including the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper suffering their worst year ...

More than half of the UK's butterfly species have populations in long-term ... cryptic wood white and chalk hill blue seeing sharp drops compared to the previous year. But 22 species were found ...

The latest annual results from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, show 'one of the worst years on record' in the UK - but ...