Lancashire news

Is a spectacular Continental moth that acts like a Humming-bird attempting to colonise the UK?

Alan Titchmarsh launches gardening campaign to help pollinating insects

Butterfly Conservation is playing a key role in a project to help our hungry and homeless pollinators.

Major annual butterfly survey reveals alarming decline of Small Copper

A new survey aims to lift the lid on the lives of our back garden butterflies

Dr Martin Warren announces his retirement as Butterfly Conservation Chief Executive

Butterfly Conservation joins coalition calling for a new woodland charter

More than three-quarters of the UK’s butterflies have declined in the last 40 years with some common species suffering significant slumps, a major scientific study has revealed.

Could millions of Painted Ladies descend this summer?

One of the UK’s rarest butterflies has recorded its best year for a decade thanks to 2014’s warm spring weather and work to restore its habitat, a study has revealed.

A spectacular European butterfly has travelled to the UK and for the first time on record, survived the British winter, Butterfly Conservation can reveal.

Butterfly Conservation welcomes the Government’s National Pollinator Strategy. The newly published document is a clear steer from Government that the declines in bees and wild pollinators including butterflies and moths are being taken seriously.

The UK’s scariest moth caused pandemonium in a suburban street after appearing unexpectedly in a back garden, just days before Halloween.

One of the UK’s rarest butterflies - the Large Blue - has declined this summer at its Somerset stronghold, Butterfly Conservation has revealed.

Wessex Water have handed over £750 of funds to help support Butterfly Conservation's education project 'Munching Caterpillars'.

One of the UK’s favourite butterflies – the Small Tortoiseshell, continued its fight back this summer after years of decline, despite enduring the coldest August since 1993, results from the Big Butterfly Count have revealed.

A year on from the publication of the State of Nature report, Sir David Attenborough joins Butterfly Conservation and our partners to seek out game-changing solutions to the crisis facing nature.

Butterfly Conservation is appealing for volunteers to help save rare butterflies in Morecambe Bay.

UK braced for influx of rare continental moths looking for ivy to feed upon