Two British prime ministers ... a spokesman for Butterfly Conservation. A mounted Large Blue butterfly can fetch as much as $400. “Britain is a nation of eccentrics, and people engage in ...

A butterfly once extinct in the UK has been reintroduced to another part of the Gloucestershire countryside. Some 1,100 larvae of the large blue butterfly were taken from other West Country ...

(Neil Hulme/Butterfly Conservation ) Hulme says he was too far away to actually see Cullen trap a large blue, but he did see him chasing butterflies with his net. After his amateur sleuthing ...

The Big Butterfly Count takes place over three weeks ... including small tortoiseshell and common blue numbers which have more than halved, while green-veined whites are down nearly two thirds ...

We didn't only see the large blue yesterday – we added two more species to our tally in The Independent's Great British Butterfly Hunt. They were two butterflies of high summer which have just ...

Key to the project’s success was to control the area’s red ant populations – “myrmica sabuleti” – which are crucial to the large blue butterfly’s life cycle. David Simcox ...

Common blue populations increased by 104% in 2018 - compared with 2017 - because of the warmer weather. Now, the Butterfly Conservation charity says the insect could have its "best summer ever ...

Pale yellow and black, with electric blue and a red spot on its hindwings, this is our largest native butterfly. The British race is the subspecies, britannicus, which you will find only in the ...

If you want to catch sight of many of Britain's butterflies, you'll need to be quick. A report by Butterfly Conservation warns that 24 of 58 species may soon disappear from our shores. Five more ...

No fewer than 52 of the 56 resident British species suffered declines ... according to the annual survey of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. The weather created disastrous conditions for ...