Orange-tips camouflaging on Garlic Mustard in Salcey Forest 🌳
Beds and Northants BC BC Upper Thames Alan Neale The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants

Saw my first fresh Green Hairstreak of the year on Friday on BBO Wildlife Trust's Greenham Common. Shame the weather has turned dull and cold again BC Upper Thames Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies

Angle Shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) found resting in our Buckinghamshire garden this afternoon. BC Upper Thames

A speckled wood #butterfly in RoyalForestrySociety Hockeridge Wood this afternoon BC Upper Thames Chiltern Society - first one I have seen this year, on a cool showery day.

Reading, 19-04-2024. Female Orange-tip, perfectly camouflaged in our Prunus marbled white, but vibrant when back lit by the afternoon sun.
Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Upper Thames

Very excited about our new paper! Lisbeth Hordley & I show that if you have long grass in your garden you’ll see more butterflies, that more long grass is better & that the effects are greater for gardens in more urban & arable landscapes. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🧵

Orange tip #butterfly seen this afternoon on a quite a cool day at Bernwood. BC Upper Thames
(Shame about the grass shadow, but it shows it was almost sunny!)

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First Holly Blue! 💙
On the forget-me-nots 💙
And a dear friend reminded me to add this and the Orange Tip 🧡 to the iRecord App for #citizenscience purposes to help Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Upper Thames BC Warwickshire

Now that's what I'm talking about! An Orange Tip clinging on (not a green veined white as it was the other day, quite right BC Upper Thames ) ? is, where will he take shelter in upcoming hailstorm?? (Any number bushes trees nearby)

I know what you’re doing. Spot the egg.. orange tip on cuckoo flower. Beautiful underwing. Dave Evans BC Upper Thames

Great to see a cloud of Green Longhorn moths (Adela reaumurella) for the first time this year, love watching them dancing #TeamMoth BC Upper Thames

Just watched a Brimstone moth lay these two eggs, on some sort of Prunus leaf I think #TeamMoth BC Upper Thames

First trapping for this season at Oakingham, Oxfordshire, one of the rewilding sites that we are helping to survey for moths and butterflies. BC Upper Thames

Recorded my first Orange-tips of 2024 in SU5682 - a BC Upper Thames 2km square with none recorded in 2020-23 (lacking spring visits in these years). Lots more spring gaps to fill in 2024 (see Hairstreak Spring issue 121, page 26). Please visit these gaps and add records!

I think this is the green longhorn moth Adela reaumurella with its extra long antenna, hard to photograph this active tiny moth in a strong wind. Several found today in an ancient wood in Chilterns National Landscape BC Upper Thames

Seen my first Orange Tip butterfly of the year! 😀💚
Fluttering in the lower orchard here.
BC Upper Thames

The garden moth trap (Caversham, Berks) seems very slow to get going this spring. Only three moths this morning, one the ever present Hebrew character, and two Brindled Beauty. I’m sure it will pick up soon!
BC Upper Thames

Enjoying the sunshine yesterday morning, in the garden at Caversham, Reading. Holly Blue, Speckled Wood, Brimstone butterflies.
Also seen were Peacocks, a Comma, and a male and female Orange-tip, but no photos.
Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Upper Thames

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to gut Natural England’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs)

This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed

(Thanks to Joe Marshall for obtaining the letter)

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