Lancashire news

Winnie the Pooh is encouraging families to enjoy the great outdoors this summer by joining Butterfly Conservation’s Big Butterfly Count.

A beautiful blue butterfly which has been struggling for the last 40 years could be making a comeback.

Chris Packham is urging wildlife lovers to take part in the world’s largest insect citizen science survey to help reveal if the UK is experiencing a once in a decade butterfly phenomenon.

A previously extinct butterfly has bred successfully in an English woodland for the first time in more than 40 years as part of the ambitious conservation project, Back from the Brink.

Around three quarters of the UK population (74%) have some negative opinion of moths, with many people believing the majority eat clothes and are pests, a study has revealed.

A branch member lost their Panasonic cable release at Warton Crag on 13 May 2019.  If you come across it please email webmaster@lancashire-butterflies.org.uk

UK butterflies bounced back in 2018 following a string of poor years, thanks in part to last year’s heatwave summer, a study has revealed.

BC's Cumbria and Lancashire Branches, in conjunction with Lancaster University, held a free 'Pathways to Butterfly Conservation in North-West England' conference.

The new 'Butterflies and Day-flying Moths of Lancashire' book is now available to buy.

The Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) annual newsletter for the 2018 season is now available to download.

The ‘Behind the scenes’ visit to Liverpool World Museum due to take place on 9th March 2019 has been postponed and will be rearranged for later this year.  

Could you help with a survey of rare Belted Beauty moths in Lancashire?

Street lighting operating all night can alter the natural pollination of a common wildflower, a study involving Butterfly Conservation (BC) has revealed.

Could you help with the Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey in Lancashire?

In July 2018 Prime Minister Theresa May announced that the Government would bring forward an Environment Bill. Butterfly Conservation (BC) understand that Defra are working on the draft of the Bill, to cover England and reserved matters in devolved countries, and this will be published before Christmas.

Scientists have discovered that moths may play a much broader role as plant pollinators than previously suspected.

Numbers of one of the UK’s best known garden butterflies have plummeted this summer despite the record-breaking hot weather, results from the Big Butterfly Count have revealed.

Scottish Ministers have “called-in” plans for a golf course at Coul Links near Embo, East Sutherland after deciding that the case is of ‘national importance’.

The Prince of Wales has recorded dozens of butterflies while taking part in the world’s largest butterfly survey at his home in Highgrove, Gloucestershire.

Sir David Attenborough has spoken of the mental health benefits of watching butterflies as he urged the public to take part in the world’s biggest butterfly survey over the next three weeks.

In the UK, since 1976, the habitat specialists butterflies index has fallen by 77%, whilst wider countryside abundance is down by 46%.

An increasing number of new moth species are arriving and settling in the UK as a result of the global reach of the horticultural trade and the changing climate, moth experts today revealed.

The Chequered Skipper has been returned to England after 40 year absence

Alan Titchmarsh is calling on gardeners to make a metre for wildlife this summer by providing a refuge for struggling butterflies, moths and other pollinators.

Nature enthusiasts in Cumbria and Lancashire are being given the chance to see some rare butterflies at a free event to celebrate 50 years of the wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation (BC).

The spring 2018 Lancashire branch newsletter is now available to download.

Major study reveals another tough summer for UK butterflies

Climate change has provided a window of opportunity for a previously extinct butterfly

A new book has been published by Brian Hancock, one of our members and an authority on this family of moths.

A local Girl Guide has sent us this article on creating a butterfly garden