The heath fritillary, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies, has seen a remarkable resurgence on the National Trust’s Holnicote ...

More than a dozen volunteers planted 850 milkweeds throughout the Spring Ridge Wildlife Sanctuary on Monday as part of a budding monarch butterfly habitat conservation project. Through a grant from ...

The number of common blue butterflies counted in 2024 was 69% lower than in 2023, with numbers down in England, Scotland and ...

According to the zoo, “Early blue violets are the main food source for the silverspot caterpillars as they mature into adult ...

Butterfly species numbers dropped 22% across the U.S. between 2000 and 2020. Habitat loss, climate change, pesticides are the main causes.

One of the UK’s rare butterflies, the heath fritillary, that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ – is rising in numbers in Exmoor.

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The decline has been precipitous over the past two decades—the monarch butterfly also suffers from habitat loss. The yearly California monarch count by volunteers for the Xerces Society for ...

The UK’s leading charity devoted to saving butterflies, moths and their habitats is encouraging Winchester residents to ...

Around this time last year, my wife noticed some black spots on the parsley and dill growing in our garden at home. I didn’t ...

More than 1,000 heath fritillaries have been recorded so far this year on the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate in Somerset.

A "conservation success story" has seen a British butterfly species coaxed in to a new county. The purple emperor is a ...