Conserving pollinators and species-rich grasslands 🌿 Nature lover and creative 🌸 @savebutterflies 🦋
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19 Jul 2021
I recently started reading The Peregrine, a beautiful book by J. A. Baker. The following day whilst out doing butterfly transects in a forgotten corner of the Borders, I saw not one but THREE peregrines for the first time. Nature is generous with its magic.
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25 Jun 2025
The meadows, butterflies and curlews of my homeland are disappearing. Replaced with thousands of hectares of non-native conifer plantations, to benefit offshore investors who will never set foot on the hills we love so much. Latest 2700ha proposal below
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-tod…
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2 Aug 2023
Wondering why we think grasslands are incredible?🌱🌾
Check out part 1 of our 3 part series on the benefits this amazing habitat provides below🌎 📽️
You can support our ongoing work to help secure the future of species-rich #grasslands here
👉 bit.ly/3JE3UeB
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10 Aug 2023
What a fantastic poster! This is so lovely.
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3 Aug 2023
Currently top of the #BigButterflyCount with over 189,000 records - the Red Admiral (Vanessa Atalanta) 🦋
This large butterfly travels to the UK from North Africa and continental Europe and can be found in all habitat types.
See how many you can count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
ALT Red Admiral Butterfly resting on a pink flowering plant with wings open. Photo credit Bob Eade. Butterfly Conservation's Big BUtterfly Count logo
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Apithanny retweeted
3 Aug 2023
Hawkmoths are beautiful! Have you spotted any of these? 🔍 wildlifewatch.org.uk/activit…
ALT Hawkmoth spotter sheet
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3 Aug 2023
Met Bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) for the first time EVER yesterday!! I’ve looked at it in my ID book *countless* times over the years, but never clapped eyes on it in real life. I’m still buzzing aaah!! 🥳 Isn’t it COOL 😍
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3 Aug 2023
The exquisite beauty of a Red Admiral! There's still time to do a #BigButterflyCount with @savebutterflies! x.com/savebutterflies/status…
3 Aug 2023
Today we’ve revealed a huge surge in sightings of the Red Admiral as #BigButterflyCount 2023 enters its final days. 🦋🕚
The Red Admiral is currently flying high with 170,000 sightings reported so far, an impressive increase of 400% on the same period last year. 📈
📸 : @IoloWilliams2
ALT A photograph of a Red Admiral butterfly enjoying some berries. Image taken by the Welsh naturalist Iolo Williams
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26 Jul 2023
This 10,000-acre estate was once the Duke of Buccleuch’s grouse moor - now it’s been bought out by the Langholm community & is being restored as a nature reserve! Natural regeneration, peat rewetting, orchid meadows. Thanks Jenny & Kat (Langholm Initiative) for showing me around!
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24 Jul 2023
Climate action should be "proportional and pragmatic", Sunak says.
Excellent. In other words, given that we're facing the greatest danger humanity has ever confronted, we should be pulling out all the stops.
Oh, turns out he means the opposite.
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13 Jul 2023
Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) should be one of the most abundant wildflowers in grasslands where it’s became scarce through most of Liverpool!
To help out this beaut beastie, I’ve started collecting seed for some of the grasslands being restored for wildlife nearby 😍🌱
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Apithanny retweeted
14 Jul 2023
Butterfly populations are sadly in decline, but there are ways you can help. By participating in Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count, you can help assess the health of the environment simply by counting the butterflies you see 🦋👀
@savebutterflies
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14 Jul 2023
The #BigButterflyCount 2023 has officially started! 🦋
Our butterflies and moths need our help more than ever. This is why we are urging everyone to get out for the Count to help us conserve them! 💚
Get involved 👉 bigbutterflycount.org
#SaveButterflies #MothsMatter
ALT Red Admiral butterfly feeding on buddleia flowers. Text reads 'Get out for the count! #BigButterflyCount' with Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count logo and dates 14th July - 6th August. Photo credit Savannah Jones
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Apithanny retweeted
13 Jul 2023
Are you ready for the #BigButterflyCount?
From 14 July - 6 Aug, choose a spot to watch butterflies & moths for 15 mins then record the species you see on the website or on the app.
👉 bit.ly/3iaRb5J
Pics clockwise:
Peacock
Silver washed fritillary
Skipper
Common blue
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2 Jul 2023
The year of the Red Admiral? A lot of these about in Hampshire for the last few weeks and today I saw perhaps 1000 in a long run on the South Downs. On the ridge of the downs one every couple of metres. Not sure if they're recent migrants or the offspring of spring arrivals.🦋
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1 Jul 2023
Something close to my heart, agricultural species rich meadows
So many lost, but we can should we wish replicate them
This meadow is only 11 years old.
Who would’ve guessed?
#NationalMeadowsDay
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1 Jul 2023
Very pleased to announce that we have set up a fund with @RoyEntSoc to honour Douglas's memory. Aim's to allow young (14 - 18 years) entomologists to apply for small grants to further develop their passion for insects & inspire others. @diarsia More here:
royensoc.co.uk/news/douglas-…
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1 Jul 2023
There's enough green in the countryside already, let's colour it up. #NationalMeadowsDay from my ex-silage field. @Love_plants
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1 Jul 2023
💚🌸It’s #NationalMeadowsDay 🌸💚Our 61 acre urban #grassland #wildflower meadow is brimming with life! #WarrenFarmNR is home to vulnerable plants, supporting a vast array of insects, Bats, Slow-Worms, Barn Owls, Skylarks & more! Pls @EalingCouncil don’t #dewild us, care for us🌼
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14 Apr 2023
Join us to look at Pollinator Monitoring in our annual pollinator conference on the 15th of June. All the details you need, including the email address to use to sign up for the day, are in the graphic below.
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