The Kent's Magnificent Moths Project is the UK’s biggest-ever dedicated moth conservation scheme 🙌🦋

Since its launch in 2021, more than 26,000 people have joined 345 events aimed at helping eight target species.

We celebrate the team's successes 👇
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60 Dew Moth caterpillars were seen camouflaged among the lichens they feed on during a National Trust Species Recovery Project survey today near Dover!

Get involved in the National Trust's rare moth surveys around Dover this year by emailing melanie.wrigleyNational Trust.org.uk

Canterbury's newest art mural is taking flight thanks to ATM!
Spot the White-spotted Sable Moth and the Heath Fritillary Butterfly. Both are rare species in the UK that need particular woodland wildflowers to ensure their survival in nearby Blean Woods.

Join us for the fourth and final talk in our popular free online series with expert Dr Phil Sterling, focusing on commonly misidentified moth species, tonight at 7pm! 🔍

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📷: Bob Eade
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Don't miss the third talk in our popular free online series with expert Phil Sterling focusing on commonly misidentified moth species tonight at 7pm! 🔎

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📷: Antony Wren
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Join us tonight at 7pm for the next in our popular free online series of talks with expert Phil Sterling sharing his Moth Identification Tips!

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📷: Anthony Wren
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Exciting news! A new breeding group of rare White-spotted Sable moth has been discovered near Canterbury 🎉

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📷: Mark Joy

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Introducing the Greenway Pollinator Trail film 📽️🍃 Documenting the creation of over 6km of wildflower meadows along the traffic-free route in Newham.🚴♂️🌺 Dive into the biodiversity and eco-havens funded by The Mayor of London’s Rewild London Fund. 🌍🐝

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We've organised a series of four, free to attend, moth ID zoom sessions!

Phil Sterling will be sharing his tips on how to best identify some of the UK's easily misidentified moths, with different species covered in each session.

Sign up for all four for all the moth tips!

Kent's rare Black-veined Moths are thriving following habitat restoration days (featuring moth biscuits!) with volunteers from Butterfly Conservation 🦋 & Natural England - Sussex and Kent Team joining forces to remove scrub regrowth from chalk grassland at Wye NNR #mothsmatter

Our annual UK Moth Recorders' Meeting is back! 📢

Join us in person at the Birmingham & Midland Institute on Saturday 27 January 2024 to hear the latest developments in moth research and conservation.

Book today 👉 butrfli.es/2zhJZxI

📷: Sophie Hall
#UKMRM #MothsMatter

New colonies of silver spotted skipper and small blue this season, appearing on two new grasslands created over last 15 years in the lower Lydden valley, part of a 4 mile seamless network of new sp. rich/diverse grasslands. Farmers leading nature recovery at landscape scale 🪲🦋

Great to be onsite today with Rebecca from the Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Kent Magnificent Moths Project, tracking down White Spotted Sable Caterpillars.
Colophera ramosella and some second brood heath Fritillaries also seen in the process Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

My first week Butterfly Conservation 🦋 completed and topped off with Brown Hairstreak eggs in one of my local parks Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

We've been recording very promising numbers of Fisher's Estuarine Moths on our surveys so far!

Our next survey is at Tankerton Slopes at 8pm tonight. We are meeting along Marine Parade opposite Lyndhurst Rest Home.

Just grab a torch and come join the survey!

This Friday 29th September at 8pm come along to Tankerton Slopes, Whitstable, CT5 2BE to join the Fisher's Estuarine Moth Survey Evening.
A great opportunity for all to grab a torch & see these large and very rare moths up close with us whilst helping this year's peak moth count!

Some images of the totally unexpected and spectacular Monarch butterfly which spent a few minutes in the Moat at the Observatory around midday yesterday. Huge thanks to Alan Swetman and Barrie Puttock for the shout.

Always a pleasure to have a close encounter with these beauties Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Bromley Parks

I was lucky this morning as almost the first butterfly I saw at Kingsdown Leas was a male Long-tailed Blue. Slightly worn but still a cracker.. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Bockhill Birders SBBOT Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London UK Butterflies ACEW Willmart

Come join Tuesday's Moth Morning at Elmley Nature Reserve to meet the moths that live there!