Report: State of the Butterflies in the United States

🦋 More than one-fifth of our butterflies disappeared between 2000 and 2020.

🦋 Over 40% of assessed species fell in numbers by 50% or more—and two dozen species suffered more than 90% losses.

🦋 "Butterfly habitat should be woven into all parts of our landscapes—farmland, utility corridors, solar arrays, bike paths, roadsides, natural areas, and backyard and community gardens—to provide homes for common and wide-ranging butterflies as well as rare and at-risk species."

🦋 "To recover butterflies, we must combine efforts across towns and cities, working lands, and natural areas as well as in the linkages and stepping stones which provide connecting pathways."

👉 All is not lost! Have a garden, pots or access to a natural area or park? Join me in building back habitat for butterflies. I will post useful resources and share my experiences and tips. Share yours as well.

🌷 I'll also post butterfly gardens from my travels. Many have a head start in this.

https://xerces.org/publications/scientific-reports/state-of-butterflies-in-united-states

#ButterflyConservation 🧵
#Butterflies #Nature #Conservation #Gardening #HabitatGardening #BiodiversityGardening

It's time for the Big Butterfly Count!

https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/

#citizenscience #nature #butterflies #butterflyconservation

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