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

Complement them with passionflower, butterfly pea, and Dutchman's pipe vines that encourage host-specific butterflies to reproduce on their foliage. This will help rescue their declining population — ...

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 ...

Brimstone, chequered skipper and large blue butterflies recorded their best ever years in 2023. These results are particularly encouraging for the large blue, which was reintroduced to the UK ...

Some UK butterfly species drop to lowest recorded numbers amid ‘human impact ... Other species that flourished last year include the Chequered Skipper, Brimstone, Brown Argus, Marbled White, ...

In just 26 years, the distribution of rare butterflies has plummeted by 72% in Eastern Denmark. ... mazarine blue and northern chequered skipper," says Emil Blicher Bjerregård.

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. The theory is that ...

An extremely rare species of butterfly that was a favourite of Winston Churchill's has been spotted once again in the English ... 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. A Large Blue butterfly ...