This year’s Big Butterfly Count begins on 14th July, and is the largest public conservation survey in the world! Run by our friends at: Butterfly Conservation. Natural Indicator Butterflies are a fantastic indicator of the natural environment around us. Meaning environmentalists and conservationists can gain lots of important information from the data collected by this …
We’d love to see drawings of your favourite British butterflies and day-flying moths, to raise awareness of vulnerable species. Get Your Artwork Featured on a Seedball Tin! Calling all budding artists, 🧑🎨 crafty collagers and playful painters. 🎨 Help us to inspire people to grow 🌸 wildflowers and save 🦋 butterflies. HOW TO ENTER Running …
Growing wildflowers in your space, should attract lots of beneficial insects. Here are some you might see in Spring. Aphids You may not think aphids are beneficial but in order for some of our favourite wildlife to survive they need to exist! There are more than 4000 different species of these tiny sap-suckers which are …
The Very Amateur Naturalist Nick Ostler is a scriptwriter by day and a wildlife obsessive also mainly by day. Instagram @theveryamateurnaturalist Twitter @theveryamateur1 All images and words © Nick Ostler Confession time I never used to bother trying to identify butterflies. Every time I crept close to one it would fly off before I’d had …
Get gardening for wildlife! The last 50 years have been witness to huge declines in native wildlife species. Together we can really do something to reverse this. British gardens combined, cover more land than all our nature reserves put together! Estimated at a whopping 10 million acres. Making our gardens a little more wildlife-friendly can …
