Butterfly and moth recording with the Brilliant Butterflies team
Butterflies Conservation Project Officer Steve Bolton shares why surveying and recording species is so important for butterfly and moth populations
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Brilliant Butterflies: the story so far
Nature Reserves Assistant Anna Guerin gives an update on the Brilliant Butterflies project.
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Discovering how Brilliant Butterflies are by Keeping it Wild Trainee Alan
Butterflies are uniquely beautiful creatures that represent new beginnings and the coming of spring season. You may have already spotted some colourful butterflies during your nature walks. But is…
Bank vole
The chestnut-brown bank vole is our smallest vole and can be found in hedgerows, woodlands, parks and gardens. It is ideal prey for owls, weasels and kestrels.
Chapel Bank
A secluded chalk grassland reserve and butterfly spotter’s paradise.
A dry summer brought purple rain: the butterflies of the Great North Wood in 2018
Great North Wood, project officer Edwin Malins looks back at the summer of 2018 as efforts to survey butterflies across the area were stepped up and hot weather saw purple hairstreaks leave their…
Bramley Bank
Restored woodland and heathland in Croydon which typifies London’s semi-natural habitats, providing a home for stag beetles and woodpeckers.
Hutchinson's Bank
A large area of secluded chalk grassland and woodland, supporting many rare plants and insects, which has benefited from the return of traditional grazing.
Walthamstow Wetlands Summer News 2020
Walthamstow Wetlands has welcomed summer with a flurry of wildlife activity and visitors. During these testing times where covid-19 has affected every corner of the globe, Walthamstow Wetlands has…
How climate change is affecting butterflies in the UK by Keeping it Wild Trainee Manpreet
The threat from climate change gives a sense of urgency to Butterfly Conservation’s strategy of conserving species at a landscape scale, making existing habitats bigger, better managed and more…
Discovering chalk grassland at Hutchinson's Bank
In my time so far as a Keeping it Wild trainee, I have been lucky enough to be based at Hutchinson's Bank in Croydon. Here we are helping to conserve the rich chalk grassland habitat. There’s…