Browsing: butterfly

The large tortoiseshell – an elusive and enigmatic butterfly that became extinct in Britain in the last century – is a UK resident species once again,…

In the tiny seaside village of Pacific Grove, California, there’s no escaping the monarch butterfly.Here, butterfly murals abound: one splashes across the side of a hotel,…

The butterfly was dead when the old man found it, lying in the snow 1,600 metres above sea level. It didn’t have a name then, as…

7. Speckled wood: 53,423 sightingsThe number of speckled wood butterflies, with their distinctive yellow specks, has seen a similar number of sightings compared with last year,…

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.Of the many things the team here…

A conservation project in West Sussex has had its best day on record for rare purple emperor butterfly sighting, and ecologists say they are confident the…