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@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-08 17:00:47

"As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours"
#Butterflies #Insects #Environment

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours
The insects’ brilliant hues evolved in lush ecosystems to help them survive. Now they are becoming more muted to adapt to degraded landscapes – and they are not the only things dulling down

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-08-08 13:00:16

"Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insect"
#Insects #Butterflies #Climate

Climate-fuelled El Niño events are devastating butterflies, beetles and other tropical insects
The research suggests the life-support system underpinning the tropics is at serious risk in a warmer world.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-10-06 15:00:39

"Scientists to attempt to rear swallowtail butterflies from eggs frozen in nitrogen"
#Butterflies #Insects #Animals

Scientists to attempt to rear swallowtail butterflies from eggs frozen in nitrogen
If successful, method could be used to support long-term conservation of species vulnerable to extinction

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-09-13 18:00:36

"Top 10 most-sighted butterflies in 2025’s Big Butterfly Count – in pictures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Top 10 most-sighted butterflies in 2025’s Big Butterfly Count – in pictures
The results of Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count are in, and while the numbers are a vast improvement on 2024’s record lows, the charity has warned that urgent measures are still needed to reverse long-term decline

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-20 14:00:52

"Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Why the UK’s butterflies are booming in 2025
Following on from ‘the year without a butterfly’, 2025 has seen sightings soar in the UK and across Europe.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-25 19:00:50

"‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

‘Magical’: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer
Britain is expecting a butterfly bounceback after last summer’s dramatic decline. Here are some of your sightings so far this year

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2025-07-21 18:00:51

"Britons urged to count butterfly numbers amid hopes of ‘outstanding’ summers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies #Insects

Britons urged to count butterfly numbers amid hopes of ‘outstanding’ summer
Big Butterfly Count asks volunteers to spend 15 minutes in local green space with big recovery expected after 2024’s dramatic decline