James CBR
@jamescbr.bsky.social
Outgoing County Recorder for Butterflies (Suffolk, Vice Counties 25 and 26).
Reporting to Suffolk Naturalists' Society and Butterfly Conservation (Suffolk Branch). 🦋
Reporting to Suffolk Naturalists' Society and Butterfly Conservation (Suffolk Branch). 🦋
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James CBR
@jamescbr.bsky.social
· Aug 9
Mediterranean butterfly spotted in the UK for the first time - twice!
Two sightings of the Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) have now been verified - one in Suffolk and one in County Durham. 📍
Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/q7svIE5
📷: Adam Gor
Two sightings of the Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) have now been verified - one in Suffolk and one in County Durham. 📍
Read the full story 👉 buff.ly/q7svIE5
📷: Adam Gor
Landguard BO in Suffolk is mentioned in the discovery of the Southern Small White in the UK. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
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The number of butterflies at risk of extinction across Europe has increased significantly in the past 15 years, a new assessment has warned:
Number of European butterflies at risk of extinction increases
The number of butterflies at risk of extinction across Europe has increased significantly in the past 15 years, a new assessment has warned. Across the continent, 65 out of 442 assessed species are now facing the threat of extinction, up from 37 in 2010. This accounts for 15% of all European species.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The number of butterflies at risk of extinction across Europe has increased significantly in the past 15 years, a new assessment has warned:
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Great news:
Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings leaves hospital
Samir Zitouni's family say they are
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great news:
Good news for people wanting to see migrant species of butterflies and moths.
Not so good for our Red Admiral, Painted Lady and Clouded Yellow trying to fly south though.
Not so good for our Red Admiral, Painted Lady and Clouded Yellow trying to fly south though.
It's still looking very promising for tonight. The wind should become lighter from the west later in the night. #teammoth
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Good news for people wanting to see migrant species of butterflies and moths.
Not so good for our Red Admiral, Painted Lady and Clouded Yellow trying to fly south though.
Not so good for our Red Admiral, Painted Lady and Clouded Yellow trying to fly south though.
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At Landguard this morning and if it wasn't for the lingering Pallas's Warbler and Barred Warbler you could be forgiven for thinking that autumn migration was over but during a couple of brief sunny spells 2 Clouded Yellows, one Helice and a single Small Copper brightened things up somewhat
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
At Landguard this morning and if it wasn't for the lingering Pallas's Warbler and Barred Warbler you could be forgiven for thinking that autumn migration was over but during a couple of brief sunny spells 2 Clouded Yellows, one Helice and a single Small Copper brightened things up somewhat
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We're thrilled to share this film featuring some of the dedicated volunteers who monitor butterflies for the UKBMS
A huge thank you to them, and everyone who's supported the scheme over the last 50 years.
#UKBMS50
youtu.be/OrF5AgseX1U?...
A huge thank you to them, and everyone who's supported the scheme over the last 50 years.
#UKBMS50
youtu.be/OrF5AgseX1U?...
Celebrating 50 years of butterfly monitoring
YouTube video by Butterfly Conservation
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October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We're thrilled to share this film featuring some of the dedicated volunteers who monitor butterflies for the UKBMS
A huge thank you to them, and everyone who's supported the scheme over the last 50 years.
#UKBMS50
youtu.be/OrF5AgseX1U?...
A huge thank you to them, and everyone who's supported the scheme over the last 50 years.
#UKBMS50
youtu.be/OrF5AgseX1U?...
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As the sun was out in Felixstowe, Butterflies seemed a good choice either side of lunchtime for a walk to the butts area Landguard which produced 3 Clouded Yellows 5 Small Copper 1 Small White and a Red Admiral
October 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As the sun was out in Felixstowe, Butterflies seemed a good choice either side of lunchtime for a walk to the butts area Landguard which produced 3 Clouded Yellows 5 Small Copper 1 Small White and a Red Admiral
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Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Why isn't this a bigger story?
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The joint intelligence committee prepare a report saying our national security is at risk from environmental collapse. And No. 10 bury because they don't to draw attention to how little they care!
@snellarthur.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What frightens me most about Halloween cobwebs isn’t how they look…..it’s that they catch the living.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.
October 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
What frightens me most about Halloween cobwebs isn’t how they look…..it’s that they catch the living.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.
Enjoy the season, but keep the plastic webs indoors; or skip them altogether.
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The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...
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Lovely sunshine and a few butterflies still fluttering about at Ilketshall St Andrew common and field edges @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Lovely sunshine and a few butterflies still fluttering about at Ilketshall St Andrew common and field edges @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
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Press briefing today at IUCN Global Biodiversity Conference, giving results of the new Red List of European butterflies. It’s not good. Full details will be published tomorrow. Watch this space @europebutterfly.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Press briefing today at IUCN Global Biodiversity Conference, giving results of the new Red List of European butterflies. It’s not good. Full details will be published tomorrow. Watch this space @europebutterfly.bsky.social
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Clouded Yellow at Aldeburgh Town Marshes today. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Clouded Yellow at Aldeburgh Town Marshes today. @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
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Sat 11th Oct 2025 2.15 pm
Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025
at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ
Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities
See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk
Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025
at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ
Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities
See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Sat 11th Oct 2025 2.15 pm
Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025
at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ
Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities
See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk
Suffolk Branch Members' Afternoon 2025
at Earl Stonham Village Hall, IP14 5HJ
Pete Eeles will be our guest speaker. He runs the UK Butterflies website & has recently published British and Irish Butterfly Rarities
See suffolkbutterflies.org.uk
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Let's hear it for Ivy!
An often misunderstood plant, but one which has incredible benefits for wildlife. 🦋🐝🐦
An often misunderstood plant, but one which has incredible benefits for wildlife. 🦋🐝🐦
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Let's hear it for Ivy!
An often misunderstood plant, but one which has incredible benefits for wildlife. 🦋🐝🐦
An often misunderstood plant, but one which has incredible benefits for wildlife. 🦋🐝🐦
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Bit of a Clouded Yellow day at Landguard this p.m. with a walk around the Butts area only producing 19 individuals including 2 Helice females, a single Hummingbird Hawkmoth and 5 Stonechats at the nw end.
September 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Bit of a Clouded Yellow day at Landguard this p.m. with a walk around the Butts area only producing 19 individuals including 2 Helice females, a single Hummingbird Hawkmoth and 5 Stonechats at the nw end.
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Hello October! Or should that be Moth-tober? 🎃🦋
With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.
With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.
October 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Hello October! Or should that be Moth-tober? 🎃🦋
With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.
With autumn well underway, keep an eye out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces.
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The Painted Lady (distelvlinder, V cardui) was only seen in low numbers on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects this year. It is a migrant species, and the graphs show that 1996, 2003, 2009 and 2019 had large invasions, the other years just a few managed their way to NL.
September 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The Painted Lady (distelvlinder, V cardui) was only seen in low numbers on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects this year. It is a migrant species, and the graphs show that 1996, 2003, 2009 and 2019 had large invasions, the other years just a few managed their way to NL.
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#Southernsmallwhite - Pieris mannii - is still active in my area E of #Ghent, Belgium. This one was in the garden yesterday. It is a typical autumn female; lots of dusting between discal and apical spot, discal spot not confined by the veins and a vague discal spot on hindwing.
#urbanbiodiversity
#urbanbiodiversity
September 29, 2025 at 8:42 AM
#Southernsmallwhite - Pieris mannii - is still active in my area E of #Ghent, Belgium. This one was in the garden yesterday. It is a typical autumn female; lots of dusting between discal and apical spot, discal spot not confined by the veins and a vague discal spot on hindwing.
#urbanbiodiversity
#urbanbiodiversity
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....and thats a wrap!
Today is the last day to carry out a survey for the 'core' UKBMS survey weeks. 🤞 the weather has been good enough to fit in your final survey.
Don't forget to get all your data entered by the END OF OCT, otherwise it may not be included in the analysis 📋 📊 Thank you!
Today is the last day to carry out a survey for the 'core' UKBMS survey weeks. 🤞 the weather has been good enough to fit in your final survey.
Don't forget to get all your data entered by the END OF OCT, otherwise it may not be included in the analysis 📋 📊 Thank you!
September 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
....and thats a wrap!
Today is the last day to carry out a survey for the 'core' UKBMS survey weeks. 🤞 the weather has been good enough to fit in your final survey.
Don't forget to get all your data entered by the END OF OCT, otherwise it may not be included in the analysis 📋 📊 Thank you!
Today is the last day to carry out a survey for the 'core' UKBMS survey weeks. 🤞 the weather has been good enough to fit in your final survey.
Don't forget to get all your data entered by the END OF OCT, otherwise it may not be included in the analysis 📋 📊 Thank you!
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Painted Lady in #Bath #Somerset #UK. These butterflies make the incredible 9000 mile journey from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle & back each year in around 6 successive generations
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #butterfly
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #butterfly
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Painted Lady in #Bath #Somerset #UK. These butterflies make the incredible 9000 mile journey from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle & back each year in around 6 successive generations
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #butterfly
#nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #ukwildlife #bathnature #butterfly
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
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Its week 26, the final week of our 50th survey season! 🎺 🎉 🦋 🥳
A HUGE thank you to all the fantastic volunteers for walking transects, recording butterflies and entering data this year.
Your efforts greatly contribute to our understanding of butterfly populations and helps us conserve them ❤️
A HUGE thank you to all the fantastic volunteers for walking transects, recording butterflies and entering data this year.
Your efforts greatly contribute to our understanding of butterfly populations and helps us conserve them ❤️
September 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Its week 26, the final week of our 50th survey season! 🎺 🎉 🦋 🥳
A HUGE thank you to all the fantastic volunteers for walking transects, recording butterflies and entering data this year.
Your efforts greatly contribute to our understanding of butterfly populations and helps us conserve them ❤️
A HUGE thank you to all the fantastic volunteers for walking transects, recording butterflies and entering data this year.
Your efforts greatly contribute to our understanding of butterfly populations and helps us conserve them ❤️
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A growing number of biologists believe that insects could be sentient, and that we must do more to minimise any pain or stress we cause them....
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...
Six-legged suffering
Are insects sentient?
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A growing number of biologists believe that insects could be sentient, and that we must do more to minimise any pain or stress we cause them....
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...
thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...
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Convolvulus Hawk-moth @Bawdsey_Hall last night. @BC_Suffolk @MigrantMothUK
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Convolvulus Hawk-moth @Bawdsey_Hall last night. @BC_Suffolk @MigrantMothUK
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This graph from @metoffice.gov.uk says it all about this summer's weather. Every month was at least a degree warmer than the average 20 years ago. Butterflies mostly did well but how will the drought have affected them? @savebutterflies.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
This graph from @metoffice.gov.uk says it all about this summer's weather. Every month was at least a degree warmer than the average 20 years ago. Butterflies mostly did well but how will the drought have affected them? @savebutterflies.bsky.social