A warming climate has helped some to flourish, researchers say, but the outlook is troubling.

Citizen scientists are being sought to help track butterfly and pollinator populations at various sites across Sussex.

Butterflies in Norfolk bounced back last year after a terrible time in 2024, new figures reveal, but many species remain at ...

A Sept. 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows British media personality and political commentator Katie Hopkins discussing purported events in the U.K. "The butterfly population in the ...

The charity behind the world’s largest butterfly survey has declared a national emergency. Butterfly Conservation’s annual Big Butterfly Count, which started in 2010, asks people in the UK to tally ...

Biodiversity is in rapid decline, across the UK and globally. Butterflies are excellent for helping us understand these changes. Where butterfly communities are rich and diverse, so too is the ...

Butterflies in the UK are disappearing because of habitat loss, pollution and climate change. This is according to 50 years of data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). Since 1976, this ...

Rare white-letter hairstreak butterflies have been spotted after volunteers planted elm trees.

Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate declines of nearly a fifth since the 1970s. The latest annual update on butterfly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A volunteer-led survey spanning half a century has revealed that more than half of the UK's butterfly species are in decline.