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Welcome to UK Butterflies!
The UK Butterflies website provides information on all of the butterfly species found in the British Isles, including those that are extinct or migrants.
This website is open to anyone wishing to contribute - click here to find out how you can help!
Finally, the many website features can be accessed using the drop-down menus found at the top of each page.
"www.ukbutterflies.co.uk is the essential and most comprehensive website on British butterflies. Its inspiring pages provide beautiful images, news and information about butterflies for everyone who is interested in them." - Jeremy Thomas and Richard Lewington, The Butterflies of Britain and Ireland.
| Patrick Barkham's Guide to British Butterflies - a Review |
28-Apr-13 |
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From the publisher: From the Cumbrian fells to the Broads of his native Norfolk, Patrick Barkham, acclaimed author of The Butterfly Isles, has travelled the country to present this personal and definitive guide to British Butterflies. All 59 species have been beautifully captured on film in their natural habitat. Detailed descriptions and close-up comparisons with similar species provide comprehensive coverage of each butterfly. Rare vagrants are also featured, as are those species which have sadly become extinct in Britain. Click here to read the review.
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| Swiss Butterflies - a Review |
11-Mar-13 |
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From the publisher: Describes 198 species found in Switzerland with more than 100 colour photographs of key species. Includes the location of butterflies according to canton and habitat and a guide to the Swiss Butterfly Data Base. It also provides recommendations on maps, weather, websites and books. Click here to read the review.
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| Significant Website Updates |
09-Feb-13 |
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It may be winter, but we've been busy! The last few months have seen some major updates to UK Butterflies. This includes a new references section containing a listing of all references used on the website, an overhaul of all subspecies and form descriptions, the inclusion of several historic specimens, the distinction between spring and summer broods (where applicable), an updated mechanism for seeing the gaps that exist in the species-specific albums, a number of site updates and the start of a project to include a description of all known aberrations. Click here to read more.
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| UK Moths Suffer 40-Year Crash |
01-Feb-13 |
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The abundance of the UK's larger moths has crashed during the past 40 years with three species becoming extinct in the last decade, a major scientific report reveals today. The State of Britain's Larger Moths 2013 found that the Orange Upperwing, Bordered Gothic and Brighton Wainscot had all become extinct in the last 10 years; these follow the extinctions of an additional 62 species during the 20th Century. Click here to read more.
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| UK Butterflies Donation |
31-Jan-13 |
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UK Butterflies is pleased to announce a donation of £1201.82 to Butterfly Conservation. The donation comes from sales of calendars, cards and photos - once again organised by Gary and Lisa Richardson.
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| Large Blue Volunteer |
31-Jan-13 |
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Fancy spending six weeks as a Large Blue Ranger volunteer, working with Britain's leading butterfly experts? Applications for the post at Collard Hill, Britain's only open access site for the rare Large Blue butterfly, are now being taken up until Friday 8th March. Click here for more information.
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| Searching for Butterflies in Southern Bulgaria |
14-Dec-12 |
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This is Paul Wetton's latest DVD offering - click here to read the review. From the author: Our trip began in Sofia during the last week of June. We searched for certain large enigmatic species such as the Camberwell Beauty, Poplar Admiral and Freyer's Purple Emperor. We found small butterflies found only in eastern areas such as Eastern Baton Blue and Little Tiger Blue plus the only definite record of Grass Jewel, new for South Western Bulgaria. Other Eastern specialities included Ottoman Brassy Ringlet, various Anomalous Blues along with Nicholl's and Bulgarian Ringlet all found in some spectacular riverine and mountain scenery.
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| 2012 UK Butterflies Outstanding Contribution Award |
08-Dec-12 |
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The 2012 UK Butterflies Outstanding Contribution Award has been won by Seth and Sami Gibson who spent their honeymoon walking the length of Britain in aid of Butterfly Conservation. Seth and Sami received a copy of Richard Tratt's Butterfly Landscapes, the The Video Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland (DVD) kindly donated by BirdGuides, and a UK Butterflies calendar. More details here.
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| Landscape-scale Conservation Report |
05-Dec-12 |
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Butterfly Conservation has just released its Landscape-scale Conservation for Butterflies and Moths - Lessons from the UK report that is the culmination of several Butterfly Conservation projects over the last few years. It's a superb piece of work and can be downloaded from the Butterfly Conservation website here. It is full of examples of how some of our rarest butterflies and moths are now flourishing thanks to Butterfly Conservation's work.
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| Four Large Blues of Hungary, 14-20 July 2013 |
19-Oct-12 |
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There are lots of beautiful places in Europe where visitors can see a wide range of butterflies from the Mediterranean to the Alpine regions, but there are only a few where the most special and sought after Large Blues (Maculinea spp.) occur in numbers, and OrsTg National Park in Western Hungary is one of them. The Four Large Blues Tour is not just an ordinary butterfly-watching trip. This is also an introduction to the activities of the Hungarian Natural Heritage Trust and the role they play in maintaining the habitats of the Large Blues and other butterfly species. Click here for details.
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| New Trip Reports |
30-Sep-12 |
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| Honeymoon Challenge! |
14-Aug-12 |
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UK Butterflies members Sami Webster and Seth Gibson got married in May this year and, with a passion for butterflies and "all things natural history", spent their honeymoon walking from Land's End in Cornwall to John O' Groats in Scotland - all in aid of Butterfly Conservation. Amazing! Click here to read more and get details on how to donate!
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| Wildflower Meadows - a Review |
27-Jul-12 |
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From the publisher: This book is a celebration of meadows and their wildflowers. Once common-place and familiar to all, not many now remain and their typical flowers are rapidly becoming a folk memory. Stylised meadow flowers, evoking a by-gone era of rural idyll and permanent summer sunshine, are used to sell everything from tea-towels to china plates and cups. Here we reveal their true beauty with close-up photography of flower detail and more distant shots setting them in their meadow context. Click here to read the review by Lynn Fomison.
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| Adventures with Caterpillars - a Precis |
27-Jul-12 |
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Lynn Fomison has written a precis of Matthew Oates' fascinating and excellent article from British Wildlife magazine, which is entitled Adventures with Caterpillars - The larval stage of the Purple Emperor butterfly. Click here to read the precis.
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| Video Guide to the Butterflies of Britain and Ireland |
24-Jun-12 |
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From the publisher: This new double-DVD set from BirdGuides presents close-up footage of all of the butterflies found in Britain and Ireland. Running for over three hours, this broadcast-quality production offer comprehensive accounts of all 59 species with superb moving film and covering identification, distribution, habitat, behaviour and all life-stages. The video is narrated by TV presenter Nick Baker. Engaging and illuminating interviews have been filmed with knowledgable butterfliers from all over the country, including Jeremy Thomas, Richard Lewington, Martin Warren and many other individuals involved with Butterfly Conservation. Click here to read the review.
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| Switzerland Trip Report |
17-Jun-12 |
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This report provides a summary of the butterflies observed on a trip made to south-west Switzerland from 9th to 15th June 2011. The members of the party were Chris Manley, Dave Shute, Gary Richardson, Lisa Baker-Richardson, Lynn Fomison, Peter Eeles and Tim Norriss. Our guide for the trip was none other than UK Butterflies team member (and a resident of Switzerland), Guy Padfield. Click here to read the report.
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Common Blue seen by David Moore at Crymlyn Burrows in South Wales. http://t.co/Z0T6FeIDaH
23-May-13 11:49 AM GMT
Chequered Skipper seen in Glasdrum Wood this week, reported by Scott Donaldson. http://t.co/VGUdNc4FHk
23-May-13 05:32 AM GMT
First Swallowtail of the year seen yesterday (20th) at Wheatfen Reserve. Reported by Andy Brazil on the UK-Leps Yahoo! forum
21-May-13 06:38 AM GMT
Brown Argus seen today at Devil's Dyke in Newmarket, reported by Trevor Sawyer. http://t.co/NK0AldzakE
19-May-13 9:32 PM GMT
Great post on the Large Blue Blog by Dave Simcox: http://t.co/h9stqIhJUz
18-May-13 1:13 PM GMT |
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