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

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

How Meadow Brown butterflies are adapting to global heating - displaying fewer spots. They have been one of the species thriving around here, where much land is left grassy for the (in many other ways destructive) dairy industry.
#butterflies #ButterfliesUK #MeadowBrown #SaveButterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #wales #cymru

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/18/meadow-brown-butterflies-adapt-to-global-heating-by-developing-fewer-spots?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other