A warming climate has helped some to flourish, researchers say, but the outlook is troubling. Source link

Could counting endangered large heath butterflies be used as an indicator of peatland health? Source link

Tim DoddClimate and science reporterAdam Gor/Butterfly ConservationThe Southern Small White has been gradually making its way across EuropeA species of butterfly previously only found in Southern Europe has been ...

Maia Davies & Nathan BriantBBC NewsGilles San MartinThe small tortoiseshell butterfly had its worst year on record in 2024More than half of the UK's butterfly species have populations in ...

Maddie MolloyBBC Climate & ScienceJack CochranThe Danaus eresimus, commonly known as the soldier butterfly, is among the 20 butterfly species experiencing the steepest declineButterfly populations in the US shrank ...

Andrew Cooper, Butterfly ConservationThe small tortoiseshell butterfly has suffered its worst year on record in the countA wildlife charity has declared a national “butterfly emergency” after its annual Big ...

An Italian father and his son have been fined 60 million Sri Lankan rupees ($200,000; £150,000) for trying to smuggle hundreds of endemic insects - including 92 species of ...

The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner - a keen naturalist - has been on their trail. Source link

The genus is named Saurona, as marks on the insect's wings look like the all-seeing eye in Tolkien's books. Source link