Chief Scientist @savebutterflies. Own views.
Joined November 2013
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Sadly this will be similar here in the UK, terrible year for butterflies. Help us by doing the Big Butterfly Count, negative records are important too! #savebutterflies #BigButterflyCount
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📢Come and join the @savebutterflies team! 1 year Ecological #Statistician post analysing big datasets for #butterflies and #moths 🦋🐛💻 UK home-based. Deadline 10th July. Details here butterflyconservation.liveva… Please share!
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Excited to share that we published another #butterfly 🦋paper🥳
We assessed landscape-level effects of permanent grassland management and landscape configuration on open-land butterflies based on national monitoring data:
doi.org/10.1007/s10531-024-0…
Summary below...
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Andalucía has so much to offer in late March, even when the weather is cloudy and windy! Chapman's Green Hairstreak, Provence Hairstreak & Panoptes Blue...
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Spanish Greenish Black-tip is one of Europe’s most threatened butterflies, primarily because it has an extremely restricted range. Last week I spent a day in Hoya de Baza exploring this incredible species and its unique habitat – a wonderful experience @europebutterfly
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How about this! A teeny-tiny, second instar White-letter Hairstreak caterpillar. Bravely venturing out to find another Elm bud to devour, having a much needed rest on the way. One of three found this afternoon in Exmouth @BCDevon @savebutterflies
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** An alarm call for us all **
The official nature watchdog, @OfficeforEP, says that "government is largely off track" to meet legally-binding nature targets.
That's true for 8/10 targets, including the overarching goal of halting nature's decline by 2030.
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Hello , I’ve written another letter to @antanddec about the ongoing appalling abuse of animals on @ITV programme @imacelebrity . I’ve tried to be polite but my patience has run thin . If you agree with what it says please RT . #ImACeleb
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Had an enjoyable and rewarding afternoon on Thursday watching Silver-studded Blues on the East Devon Pebblebeds with colleagues. Several females spotted laying eggs on bracken and a very appealing bit of dead wood! @MarcusWRhodes @BCDevon @EastDevonAONB @NigelBournBC
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Here's my article from the latest issue of Butterfly @savebutterflies - I just LOVE hairstreaks, and I want more people to experience their incredible life-cycle. I hope info like this can make these beautiful and elusive butterflies more accessible for all!
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Listening to Chris Philp on @BBCr4today talking about ‘protecting the public from @JustStop_Oil protesters’ . Saying nothing about protecting the public from climate breakdown as the government plans to drop flagship £11.6bn climate pledge . . . FFS ! Yesterday was the hottest day on earth
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Silver-studded Blue laying an egg on Bracken pinnae in the East Devon Pebblebed Heaths. Note the use of her abdomen to test multiple locations before deciding on a place to lay. @savebutterflies @BCDevon
Very well deserved, well done Jane. @JaneHillYork
Congratulations to our president @JaneHillYork on being awarded an OBE for services to conservation ecology. Your contributions to entomology and conservation are truly inspiring. Thank you for your dedication and leadership 🦋
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Ecological theory and experience tells us that just leaving a heavily degraded ecosystem to natural processes means we will be waiting a long time for nature recovery
There is nothing wrong with interventions to set these systems on a path of recovery science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Wonderful day with TVAONB surveying for Heath Fritillary in Greenscoombe Wood, Tamar Valley - a lovely woodland brilliantly managed by the Duchy of Cornwall, who maintain early successional habitat through rotational coppicing and scrub control. A joy to see 233 Heath Frits!
Thanks for a great day out Dave W @mwain2 @RyanClarkNature
Lepidopterists 113 years apart outside the #DerbyArms inn, Witherslack, Cumbria. The pic hangs in the bar. Yesterday, @savebutterflies Butterfly Conservation staff outside the pub after day surveying rare species @stanleyestates @ForestryEngland and Methop Moss @cumbriawildlife
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New research shows that moths adapted to cooler conditions are being lost from parts of Britain as a result of climate change. 🌡️
But increasing the amount of water within habitats could be key to saving these species. 💧
Read now 👉 butrfli.es/40kDl4F
#MothsMatter
ALT A Northern Spinach moth on a leaf. Photo credit Iain H Leach