Last year marked a devastating low for butterflies in the UK, according to new figures from conservationists. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) found that more than half of the UK's butterfly ...

Ahead of the Big Butterfly Count next month, one of the UK’s rarest butterflies – that was once on ‘the brink of extinction’ – is rising in numbers. The heath fritillary butterfly, nicknamed the ...

A Sept. 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows British media personality and political commentator Katie Hopkins discussing purported events in the U.K. "The butterfly population in the ...

Lars B. Pettersson receives funding from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The charity behind the world’s largest butterfly survey has declared a national emergency. Butterfly ...

The Peacock (Inachis io) is easily recognised with the striking ‘peacock feather’ eyespot markings on its wings, these are ...

Elizabeth Duncan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate declines of nearly a fifth since the 1970s. The latest annual update on butterfly ...