Garden owners are being urged to avoid mowing their lawns until September, as more than half of the UK's butterfly species ...

Small tortoiseshell butterflies saw a dramatic and concerning drop in numbers this year, experts said (Iain H Leach/Butterfly Conservation/PA) Small tortoiseshell butterfly numbers plummeted this ...

The small tortoiseshell, for reasons no one really understands, has declined so rapidly that in just a few years it has become a threatened species. Since 1990, numbers of this most attractive of ...

The Small Tortoiseshell is one of our most common and widespread butterflies. The pattern of creamy-yellows, foxy-oranges, and black on the insect’s wings reminded the person who first named the ...

Dailymotion Small Tortoiseshell butterfly Posted: 3 April 2025 | Last updated: 3 April 2025 2024 was the worst year for the Small Tortoiseshell butterfly. Since the first UK Butterfly Monitoring ...

The Small Tortoiseshell, Chalk Hill Blue and Small Copper are three of the butterflies that have suffered a particular decline. The monitoring scheme by the charity Butterfly Conservation ...

However there is a sliver of hope. Sometime among the weather mayhem a small tortoiseshell was seen on Chislehurst Common, the first time it had been recorded there for many years. The small ...

Small tortoiseshell butterfly numbers plummeted this year despite the hot sunny conditions, results from the annual Big Butterfly Count show. The well-known garden butterfly suffered its worst ...