There is a group of day-flying butterflies which look rather like moths, being short, stubby, and with fat bodies. These are ...

Carolina jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a fast-growing climbing plant that'll turn your yard into a thriving haven for spicebush swallowtail butterflies along with hummingbirds and bees. They ...

Chequered skipper butterflies have been brought from Belgium to Northamptonshire, where they are thriving. Narrow-headed ants, which had been driven into a single wildlife refuge in southern ...

The reintroduction of a species of butterfly that went extinct in England nearly 50 years ago has been declared a success. The chequered skipper was always scarce, but died out in 1976 with ...

Marcus Rhodes is a member of Butterfly Conservation and is engaged in consultancy work with the charity. Butterflies are important bellwethers of environmental change. Highly sensitive to climatic ...

Other species that flourished last year include the Chequered Skipper, Brimstone, Brown Argus, Marbled White, Comma, Black Hairstreak and Holly Blue.

Rapid and continuing regional decline of butterflies in eastern Denmark 1993-2019. Biological Conservation, 2023; 284: 110208 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110208 ...

Describing the rarity of these butterflies, Andrew said: "The large chequered skipper in particular is ultra rare. In 1946 it turned up in Jersey and had a small colony there.

This is necessary to ensure the places the butterfly lives are suitable for the long-term survival of the species. Recent examples are the Large Blue and the Chequered Skipper.’ ...

“Both the Large Blue and Checkered Skipper which didn’t exist in the UK have now come back.” Andrew’s book ‘Butterfly Safari’ is on sale now and costs £30.