Mike maɪkOct 1, 2024

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

A butterfly: ‘elbowing each other with the joints on their legs, pushing and shoving to get at the liquid’

We learn about butterflies when we are small because it is foreshadowing: you too will change. But they are an imperfect metaphor for what it feels like to live

The Guardian
Mike maɪkSep 20, 2024

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

‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve

In a Guardian interview, Tony Juniper says housebuilding plans could be an opportunity to create ‘wild belts’ around cities to help habitat and species recovery

The Guardian
Mike maɪkSep 8, 2024
We had a blast of summer yesterday, & with it an influx of butterflies into our garden. I was excited to see the only Painted Lady this year, & a Red Admiral - both species Vanessa. I got my phone out & got a quick shot. But when Iooked at the photo the Painted Lady isn’t there! The butterfly here is definitely a Comma!? Maybe the Painted Lady flew off seconds before I pointed my camera?
#butterflies #ButterflyConservation #SaveOurButterflies #Vanessa #Gaygardener #PaintedLady #RedAdmiral
Mike 👩‍🌾Aug 20, 2024
The last of my Gatekeepers #inMyGarden this summer, I suspect - while it rested on a dead leaf momentarily I managed to get a quick shot on my phone before it flitted away as Gatekeepers do .
#Gatekeeper #butterlfy #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation #summer
Mike maɪkAug 6, 2024

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

Mike maɪkJul 12, 2024

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

As British butterflies head north, scientists ask public to help track migration

With up to 80% of butterflies in decline, people are being asked to spend 15 minutes to record number and type witnessed

The Guardian
Mike maɪkJul 6, 2024
At last, in this so-called UK ‘summer’, our garden has a four-winged visitor, a lovely Meadow Brown, the first one to come here in July.
#butterfly #butterflies #MeadowBrown #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation #ButterflyWatch #GayGardener #GayGardening #summer #Lepidoptera
Mike maɪkApr 20, 2024
At last, the first butterfly species in the year to populate our lanes & gardens - the Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines - has arrived here. A female (which has no orange tips, of course) is visiting us today - being 20 April they are later than usual
#Butterfly #ButterflyConservation #SaveOurButterflies #OrangeTip #today #NorthWales #Cymru
Mike maɪkDec 1, 2023

I had no sightings of Painted Ladies that made it here this year, in our part of the N. of Wales. So it’s good to read American individuals made it over the Atlantic and have been breeding elsewhere.
#PaintedLady #butterflies #SaveOurButterflies #ButterflyConservation #Lepidoptera

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/30/american-painted-lady-butterflies-set-up-home-on-isles-of-scilly?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

American painted lady butterflies set up home on Isles of Scilly

Steady smattering of sightings of rare migrant on St Mary’s, after last year’s first sighting in Cornwall since 1876

The Guardian
rambamDec 29, 2018

Trump's border wall threatens my butterflies and my community. I grew up going on field trips to this sanctuary. I want my children to do the same. This is more than just "reality TV", his egocentric bullshit harms people and it harms me. Shame. Shame. Shame. And No.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/13/butterfly-sanctuary-border-wall-mission-texas​

#texas #saveourbutterflies​