From an email circulated by Butterfly Conservation Butterflies are both beautiful and vital to the health of our environment. Their survival is crucial yet they are in serious decline. Be part of the big butterfly count from the 24th July to the 1st of August this year and help us gather information...

Glyphosate becomes inactive on contact with soil. It works on Japanese Knotweed to an extent. However that claim about becoming inactive on contact with soil has always irritated me. That sort of rapid reaction that is implied by the statement which comes from Monsanto's claim sounds more typical o...

DE Vlinderstichting ( Dutch Butterfly Conservation) have also released the story

http://www.vlinderstichting.nl/actueel. ... euwsid=229
It also it seems has been in the Dutch press as a result

http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/inp/2010/04/01/R080.htm

Butterfly Conservation have issued a press release on this.

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/a ... ation.html

Pete Eeles wrote:Not sure if that would equal the energy savings from building the hydroelectic dams - but I'll ask Martin Warren for his thoughts (we're meeting on Thursday).

Cheers,

- Pete

I am puzzled by this. Could you clarify what the "that" is you are referring to in your first sentence?

Thanks to all who have signed. I'd really appreciate it if others would also sign - the list is pathetically small at the mo and every signature counts! Cheers, - Pete Pete, congratulations on doing this! It is an excellent idea. (I have of course signed.) Over the years I have done a few sites lik...

The forum contents are not appearing in Google. Is there a reason for this? To check what I mean take a selection of a dozen words from some posting that dates back months and put it into Google. I have looked for the obvious markers that Webmasters put into their pages to prevent Google doing this ...

Good post Neil. I was disgusted to read about the Alice Holt carnage and put a post on my Facebook and Blog sites. Today I contacted BBC Inside Out (http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/presenter/contact-us.shtml) to suggest this would be a suitable subject for Chris Packham, a Hamspshire lad, to g...

I don't know if this is too late but there is a south western lepidoptera yahoo group which is full of people who can help.

My only tip is a place called silverado canyon in Orange County south of LA.

It is near Santa Ana IIRC

Good post Neil. I was disgusted to read about the Alice Holt carnage and put a post on my Facebook and Blog sites. Today I contacted BBC Inside Out (http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/presenter/contact-us.shtml) to suggest this would be a suitable subject for Chris Packham, a Hamspshire lad, to g...

Good post Neil. For the record, I'm no denialist - quite the reverse, but I get tired of ill-presented evidence and the enraged debate that usually follows. Your examples of climate change denialists being misinformed and largely mad are interesting... I'm sure though, with a little research I coul...

With so many agencies and "experts" involved I am not surprised that confusion arises! For example: Locally our Natural History Society still insists that we DO have Small Blue near Cambridge; my local BC branch however has one record from 2001 and none since at that site, despite regular...

There is a lot of dodgy butterfly trading on Eb On the general subject of dodgy trading on the internet these two threads should be interesting. http://tinyurl.com/ye4qveh http://tinyurl.com/y932jct They come from sci.bio.entomology.lepidoptera a usenet discussion group but in reality were all poste...

Could probably let them have the Scarce Copper as a gesture of good will as there's circumstantial evidence to suggest that it was a resident species up until the C19th. It does make you wonder about the rest of the information that they've produced here though. Recent job vacancies for the organis...

[quote="Felix" There was no reason to suppose that the Brown Argus would adapt to a new larval food plant in the manner in which it has in order to take advantage of the ecological opportunity that presented itself for the species to move northwards in favourable climatic conditions. The s...

This is either Maculinea alcon or rebeli. There isn't much of a view but since the video clip is so famous I would hope someone knows. This is a clip from David Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth series showing the caterpillars and the parasite in the nest. In any case you can all enjoy this mag...

And another unexpected observation from the literature. Our Swallowtail larvae will apparently feed on the shrub Mexican Orange Blossom Choisya ternata - perhaps not quite so bizarre as it sounds as some tropical species of Swallowtail use Choisya naturally. Jack The chemical composition of the pla...

A varied genetic stock will of course be necessary. I have never bred Large Coppers myself, but I understand that they are not too difficult. And now to be controversial. Maybe BC should at the appropriate time encourage members to breed from the already substantial captive stock to build not only ...

I am on most of the world's butterfly lists and receive a lot of email messages from them. Today an American on a list covering California and the surrounding area has made a posting there. As a treat for everyone he has posted on youtube one of his fantastic videos. It is of one of their butterflie...

The only time I have confronted someone with some questioning as to what he was doing with a butterfly net in a colony of rare butterflies it turned out he was putting them in, not taking them out. :oops: You make a good point about habitat loss, CC. Reading the above post about a brown hairstreak ...