Members of the public taking part in the Big Butterfly Count recorded more than 1.5 million butterflies and day-flying moths between July 14 and August 6. It is thought they benefited from the wetter ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge ...

Hopefully, it’s a problem that butterfly researchers won’t have to face for too much longer. A new museum research project, known as AMISTAD, is combining ancient DNA, modern computing technology and ...

A "treasure" of Northern Ireland's countryside has had a bumper year, thanks to warm weather and conservation efforts. The Marsh Fritillary butterfly used to be widespread across the UK and Ireland ...

EXPERTS have sounded the alarm over worryingly low UK butterfly numbers after a woeful annual count. Conservationists fear we will face "extinction events never before seen in our lifetime" unless ...

Newly released data has shown that 2024 was one of the worst years on record for butterflies in the UK. More than half of butterfly species in the UK are now in long-term decline and over a third are ...

A Sept. 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows British media personality and political commentator Katie Hopkins discussing purported events in the U.K. "The butterfly population in the ...

Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a fifth since the 1970s, with species that need specific habitats faring even worse, official figures show. Conservationists warn falls in butterfly numbers are ...

The team behind a yearly check on butterfly numbers say they have recorded the lowest count ever for some species in Britain. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme recorded a mixed picture for 58 types ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time in ...

Half of British butterflies are now on the Red List for Great Britain - classed as either threatened or near threatened. British butterflies were among the most threatened in Europe, and now the ...