Events

Meet at Ruislip Gardens Tube Station

Guided butterfly walk for summer butterflies and the hope of seeing the elusive Brown Hairstreak butterfly - join Dick Middleton at Stafford Road Open Space

No booking is required

Hatch Hill, Polden Hills, Nr Street.

A walk along part of the Polden Way to Hatch Hill, an SSSI area of restored calcareous grassland.

Colstrope Farm, near Hambleden, Bucks

Conservation day course at Colestrope Farm, Hambeldon, Bucks

Bookham KT23 3JG

Target: Brown Hairstreak

There are caterpillars in Whitstable that feed in the stems and roots of the plants and we need your help to find them by hunting for their poo!

Kent’s Magnificent Moths: one year on and how to identify them! 
@ Crab Museum in Margate. 

Bishops Down near Sherborne

BC MEMBERS ONLY   A return visit to Ryewater Nursery - join us for a weekend of mothing and a butterfly walk.

Butterfly Conservation at the Peterborough Museum Extinction Exhibition
Join us at Peterborough Museum at their Extinction Exhibition to learn about the butterflies and moths in the East of England and the work being done to ensure we do not lose any more of these beautiful insects to extinction!

Horsenden Hill, meet Horsenden Farm, Horsenden Lane North, Greenford, UB6 7PQ

Guided walk for White-letter Hairstreak and other summer butterflies including Marbled White and Purple Hairstreak, and see the moths recorded the previous night with local expert Dave Howdon. Joint event with the Friends of Horsenden Hill and Ealing Wildlife Group.

No booking is required

Saturday 13th August, 10:30 am

Lardon Chase, Streatley, Berks

A guided walk to see some of the diversity of grassland and scrub butterflies recorded at this site.

Sunday 14th August, 10:00 am

Aston Rowant NNR, Oxon

Walk to see the late summer specialist butterflies of this site.

Dover

Sorry but this event has been cancelled

Canvey Wick Buglife reserve, Essex

A guided walk to see summer species at this popular nature reserve with a possibility of seeing Wall Brown and Clouded Yellow.

Netherclay LNR, Taunton

Our final guided walk this season takes us to Netherclay LNR, which is probably the best site in Somerset for seeing the Brown Hairstreak.

Cranleigh GU6 8JR

Target: Brown Hairstreak

Work party at Holtspur Bottom, Bucks

Wednesday 17th August 10:30am - 1:30pm

Habitat management work at Prees Heath Common to conserve the population of Silver Studded Blue

Bookham KT23 3JG

Target: Brown Hairstreak

Newdigate RH5 5DN

Target: Brown Hairstreak

Fontmell Down, Near Shaftesbury, Dorset

A visit to Dorset's only Silver-spotted Skipper site

Bincombe north of Weymouth

A survey of this newly created downland habitat

Sunday 21st August

Barry Buddon MOD Training Centre, Monifieth, Angus

Join volunteers from the East Scotland branch to discover the wildlife of Barry Buddon - a place not normally open to the public.

Sunday 21st August, 10:30 am

Buckler's Forest, Crowthorne, Berks

Walk around the extensive network of paths in Buckler's Forest in search of summer butterflies including Grayling.

Lydden Down, Kent Wildlife Trust Reserve

Join the Kent Branch at this Kent Wildlife Trust reserve, where we hope to see Silver-spotted Skipper and other downland species of butterflies.

Merrow GU1 2QP

Target: Brown Hairstreak

Ulwell, Swanage

A return visit to this chalk downland and sea views.

Therfield Road car park off Therfield Road in Royston

Guided butterfly walk for Adonis Blue and late summer butterflies. An opportunity to be shown around this important chalk grassland site with local expert Martin Johnson. Therfield Heath supports a recently established colony of Adonis Blue

No booking required

Walk to see the Blues! – Common, Adonis and Chalk Hill Blues

Osmington, east Of Weymouth

Enjoy a leisurely coastal downland and country lane walk. We shall be looking for at least 15 species of butterfly, including Adonis Blue and Wall

Come down to Pluckley for a magnificent moth morning!