April is when spring wildflowers begin to blossom in quantity, in tune with butterflies and bees emerging for the summer season ahead. The offering up of sweet nectar and protein-rich pollen, just ...

Butterfly numbers in Norfolk plummeted by 24pc last year - equating to almost 13,000 less than the previous year. Butterfly Conservation Norfolk said that 40,698 butterflies were counted in 2024 ...

This also included one of the UK’s garden favourites, Small Tortoiseshell, which suffered another incredibly poor year. Found across a wide range of habitats including gardens, this once common and ...

2024 was the worst year for the Small Tortoiseshell butterfly. Since the first UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme results in 1976, its abundance has plummeted by 86 per cent. Footage by Butterfly ...

A lovely day brings out this brimstone butterfly to the spring flowers in Cumbria, UK. Credit: John Eveson/Alamy Live News. Picture: Alamy According to the figures, last year was the worst on record ...

said renowned butterfly species including the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper suffered their worst year ever. It was also the second-worst year, since monitoring started ...

Conservationists have said more than half of butterfly species in the UK are ... the worst year on record for species like the small tortoiseshell, the chalk hill blue and small copper.

Among them was the small tortoiseshell butterfly, numbers of which plummeted by 86% in the past 49 years, while the green-veined white butterfly saw a 28% decline. Common butterflies that live in ...

The data – collected from volunteers across the country – painted a bleak picture for the future of many butterfly species. Nine species surveyed had their lowest numbers since records began, such as ...