Butterfly Conservation Warwickshire
@bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
Butterfly Conservation Warwickshire works alongside the local community to raise awareness about the threats to our butterflies, moths and their habitats. VC38.
https://butterfly-conservation.org/in-your-area/warwickshire-branch
https://butterfly-conservation.org/in-your-area/warwickshire-branch
This SSSI is a mosiac of calcareous grasslands, scrub & trees supporting 28 species of butterflies. Notability the Dark-green fritillary, Green Hairstreak, Grizzled Skipper, Dingy Skipper and Small Heath.
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This SSSI is a mosiac of calcareous grasslands, scrub & trees supporting 28 species of butterflies. Notability the Dark-green fritillary, Green Hairstreak, Grizzled Skipper, Dingy Skipper and Small Heath.
We had a great turn out of volunteers on this Tuesdays work party at Harbury Spoilbank North! Thanks to Mike pre-mowing a section on Monday the rakers could crack on while the rest started cutting the dips & bumps!
Do click on photo for full image. #butterflies #volunteers
Do click on photo for full image. #butterflies #volunteers
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
We had a great turn out of volunteers on this Tuesdays work party at Harbury Spoilbank North! Thanks to Mike pre-mowing a section on Monday the rakers could crack on while the rest started cutting the dips & bumps!
Do click on photo for full image. #butterflies #volunteers
Do click on photo for full image. #butterflies #volunteers
Are you more of a Night Owl? Prefer to do a spot of garden watching in the glow of the Moon 🌙 Then you need to create a Moon Meadow #WildSpace for our night time pollinators! 😀 #moths #teammoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Are you more of a Night Owl? Prefer to do a spot of garden watching in the glow of the Moon 🌙 Then you need to create a Moon Meadow #WildSpace for our night time pollinators! 😀 #moths #teammoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Yesterday the Practical work party team was back at the Little Haven. The paths around the ponds were cut & raked, the orchard ride tided & hedge work carried out. Also wildflower seeds sown ready for next years butterflies. 🦋
#butterfly #conservation #HabitatManagement #volunteer
#butterfly #conservation #HabitatManagement #volunteer
October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yesterday the Practical work party team was back at the Little Haven. The paths around the ponds were cut & raked, the orchard ride tided & hedge work carried out. Also wildflower seeds sown ready for next years butterflies. 🦋
#butterfly #conservation #HabitatManagement #volunteer
#butterfly #conservation #HabitatManagement #volunteer
Sharing David Brown’s stunning photo of a Oak Rustic from his garden trap this week. He noted it had strongly marked orange stigmata. What a fabulous photo 😀 #moths #teammoth #warwickshire
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Sharing David Brown’s stunning photo of a Oak Rustic from his garden trap this week. He noted it had strongly marked orange stigmata. What a fabulous photo 😀 #moths #teammoth #warwickshire
Work at Ettington Cutting site has now been completed for this year ✅ Many thanks to our hard working volunteers. Summer & Autumn photos of this site below.
October 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Work at Ettington Cutting site has now been completed for this year ✅ Many thanks to our hard working volunteers. Summer & Autumn photos of this site below.
Small Skipper & Essex Skipper both prefer open places with long grass, like unimproved rough grassland, downs, roadside verges, field edges & woodland glades. So leaving some areas of long grass in your garden would be supporting this species. 🦋
October 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Small Skipper & Essex Skipper both prefer open places with long grass, like unimproved rough grassland, downs, roadside verges, field edges & woodland glades. So leaving some areas of long grass in your garden would be supporting this species. 🦋
A few of the many leaf mines looked at this morning on our leaf mine event at Bubbenhall Wood & Meadow. (Hopefully I got the names right!) #leafmines
October 4, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A few of the many leaf mines looked at this morning on our leaf mine event at Bubbenhall Wood & Meadow. (Hopefully I got the names right!) #leafmines
We braved Storm Amy this morning to delve into the world of Leaf Mines! Local expert Martin showed a keen small group how to spot & identify #leafmines 🔍 #events #workshop
October 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We braved Storm Amy this morning to delve into the world of Leaf Mines! Local expert Martin showed a keen small group how to spot & identify #leafmines 🔍 #events #workshop
Leaf mines! Volunteer Scott found 37 leaf mines on Tuesday work party in between the raking. Found on Oak, Hazel, Elm, Dog Rose, Hawthorn, Blackthorn & Apple. Looking forward to seeing how many were found today! #leafmines
October 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Leaf mines! Volunteer Scott found 37 leaf mines on Tuesday work party in between the raking. Found on Oak, Hazel, Elm, Dog Rose, Hawthorn, Blackthorn & Apple. Looking forward to seeing how many were found today! #leafmines
A very wet Practical work party at Ettington this morning! Steady progress being made at this site. We will be back here next Tuesday. #volunteer #warwickshire
October 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A very wet Practical work party at Ettington this morning! Steady progress being made at this site. We will be back here next Tuesday. #volunteer #warwickshire
Common Blue, Peacock, Speckled Wood & Green-veined white butterflies all seen yesterday by the volunteer work party at Ettington Cutting. Though the highlight was a Clouded Yellow! #butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Common Blue, Peacock, Speckled Wood & Green-veined white butterflies all seen yesterday by the volunteer work party at Ettington Cutting. Though the highlight was a Clouded Yellow! #butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Our Practical Conservation volunteers are at Ettington Cutting this week cutting and raking the grassland banks. We started management of this site in 2016 & it’s great to see how much it has improved since then.
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Our Practical Conservation volunteers are at Ettington Cutting this week cutting and raking the grassland banks. We started management of this site in 2016 & it’s great to see how much it has improved since then.
Tuesdays Practical work party was at Newton Five Arches Wildlife site. The volunteers worked hard on the slopes & saw 6 butterfly species on the day. Great to see Large White butterfly eggs on the Garlic Mustard we have sown here 🥚🐛🦋
September 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Tuesdays Practical work party was at Newton Five Arches Wildlife site. The volunteers worked hard on the slopes & saw 6 butterfly species on the day. Great to see Large White butterfly eggs on the Garlic Mustard we have sown here 🥚🐛🦋
6 species added to the 1st sightings list in May. Thankyou to everyone who submits their sightings. Looking forward to seeing which day flying moths & butterflies are added in June.
June 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
6 species added to the 1st sightings list in May. Thankyou to everyone who submits their sightings. Looking forward to seeing which day flying moths & butterflies are added in June.
Thankyou to everyone who joined our Branch Open Day at Ryton Wood Meadows. The ⭐️ species were the Wood Whites posing rather nicely along the ditch edges. We hope those who joined us had an enjoyable experience and we look forward to doing it again next year!
📷 J.Atkinson
📷 J.Atkinson
May 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thankyou to everyone who joined our Branch Open Day at Ryton Wood Meadows. The ⭐️ species were the Wood Whites posing rather nicely along the ditch edges. We hope those who joined us had an enjoyable experience and we look forward to doing it again next year!
📷 J.Atkinson
📷 J.Atkinson
10 species added to the 1st sightings list in April. Thankyou to everyone who records butterflies & moths especially adding them to I-record!
April 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
10 species added to the 1st sightings list in April. Thankyou to everyone who records butterflies & moths especially adding them to I-record!
Always worth checking around your moth trap. Some moths like to chill on the outside 😆 This pale tussock being one of them. What’s your best out-of-moth trap find?
📷 K.Thorpe
📷 K.Thorpe
April 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Always worth checking around your moth trap. Some moths like to chill on the outside 😆 This pale tussock being one of them. What’s your best out-of-moth trap find?
📷 K.Thorpe
📷 K.Thorpe
This plant is beneficial for orange tip + green-veined white which are easily attracted to this plant in your garden or local green space.
Either buy some seeds or if you can wait a couple of months it will be easily collectable from your local plants. Then follow the instructions on the guide
Either buy some seeds or if you can wait a couple of months it will be easily collectable from your local plants. Then follow the instructions on the guide
April 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This plant is beneficial for orange tip + green-veined white which are easily attracted to this plant in your garden or local green space.
Either buy some seeds or if you can wait a couple of months it will be easily collectable from your local plants. Then follow the instructions on the guide
Either buy some seeds or if you can wait a couple of months it will be easily collectable from your local plants. Then follow the instructions on the guide
A simple but effective technique that everyone can do to help butterflies.
On our website, in the newsletter section we have written a photographic guide for planting garlic mustard. butterfly-conservation.org/.../magazine....
On our website, in the newsletter section we have written a photographic guide for planting garlic mustard. butterfly-conservation.org/.../magazine....
April 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
A simple but effective technique that everyone can do to help butterflies.
On our website, in the newsletter section we have written a photographic guide for planting garlic mustard. butterfly-conservation.org/.../magazine....
On our website, in the newsletter section we have written a photographic guide for planting garlic mustard. butterfly-conservation.org/.../magazine....
It's been a double skipper week! Both Grizzled & Dingy skippers have been recorded.
These sun loving butterflies are 2 of our key species in Warwickshire, working with and on behalf of landowners to improve the fortunes of these butterflies
📷K.Warmington & S.Cheshire
These sun loving butterflies are 2 of our key species in Warwickshire, working with and on behalf of landowners to improve the fortunes of these butterflies
📷K.Warmington & S.Cheshire
April 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It's been a double skipper week! Both Grizzled & Dingy skippers have been recorded.
These sun loving butterflies are 2 of our key species in Warwickshire, working with and on behalf of landowners to improve the fortunes of these butterflies
📷K.Warmington & S.Cheshire
These sun loving butterflies are 2 of our key species in Warwickshire, working with and on behalf of landowners to improve the fortunes of these butterflies
📷K.Warmington & S.Cheshire
The winch was once used to move bricks down to the canal from the brick kilns. Then transported across the Midland via the canal networks. It's important to look after our human and natural heritage at these sites 🥰
📷 T.Penycate
📷 T.Penycate
April 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The winch was once used to move bricks down to the canal from the brick kilns. Then transported across the Midland via the canal networks. It's important to look after our human and natural heritage at these sites 🥰
📷 T.Penycate
📷 T.Penycate
It's not just butterflies + moths that benefit from the practical work parties efforts. This historical winch was uncovered whilst the team was carrying out grassland management at Fenny Compton Tunnels.
April 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It's not just butterflies + moths that benefit from the practical work parties efforts. This historical winch was uncovered whilst the team was carrying out grassland management at Fenny Compton Tunnels.
What will be the next butterfly species added to the Warwickshire 2025 year list? Could it be Green hairstreak, Grizzled skipper or Small copper? Species which are on the wing further south
Record all your sightings to i-record and get your name on the 2025 list!
📷H.Burnett
Record all your sightings to i-record and get your name on the 2025 list!
📷H.Burnett
April 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
What will be the next butterfly species added to the Warwickshire 2025 year list? Could it be Green hairstreak, Grizzled skipper or Small copper? Species which are on the wing further south
Record all your sightings to i-record and get your name on the 2025 list!
📷H.Burnett
Record all your sightings to i-record and get your name on the 2025 list!
📷H.Burnett
Sun-loving caterpillars ☀️
Scarlet tiger moth caterpillars can be found during the day. Green alkanet and comfrey plants are a particular favoured plant for these striking black and yellow caterpillars.
Let us know if you've seen one!
📷 K.Thorpe
#mothmonday #mothsmatter
Scarlet tiger moth caterpillars can be found during the day. Green alkanet and comfrey plants are a particular favoured plant for these striking black and yellow caterpillars.
Let us know if you've seen one!
📷 K.Thorpe
#mothmonday #mothsmatter
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Sun-loving caterpillars ☀️
Scarlet tiger moth caterpillars can be found during the day. Green alkanet and comfrey plants are a particular favoured plant for these striking black and yellow caterpillars.
Let us know if you've seen one!
📷 K.Thorpe
#mothmonday #mothsmatter
Scarlet tiger moth caterpillars can be found during the day. Green alkanet and comfrey plants are a particular favoured plant for these striking black and yellow caterpillars.
Let us know if you've seen one!
📷 K.Thorpe
#mothmonday #mothsmatter