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#SaveOurButterflies

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Mike maɪk

theguardian.com/environment/20

Butterflies as a metaphor for what it is for us humans to live, to exist.
Maybe that’s what fascinates me. I see in them our own fragile beauty, whose appearance for so short a time has been anticipated for aeons and watched in awe by the rest of the cosmos.

Painted Lady butterfly feeds on a lavender flower. Its wings are wide open, once bright but now pale orange, and brown blotches, and brown and white corners. Its antennae are still erect, but edges of wings are jagged, bits eaten away by its experiences in battling weather and other creatures
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Mike maɪk

Butterfly population in Britain halves in 2024.
Tony Juniper chair: 'The butterfly data is an early signal of what lies ahead.. a warning from nature as to how far we’ve gone towards taking the resilience out of natural systems.This circles back on people in terms of our food security which depends on that web of life still functioning.'

theguardian.com/environment/20

a small tortoiseshell butterfly its orange wings open, with their blue dotted rear edgings, and ‘zebra’ markings on the front edges. It is feeding on clumps of bright purple coloured verbena flowers
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Mike maɪk

We had a blast of summer yesterday, & with it an influx of butterflies into our garden. I was excited to see the only Painted Lady this year, & a Red Admiral - both species Vanessa. I got my phone out & got a quick shot. But when Iooked at the photo the Painted Lady isn’t there! The butterfly here is definitely a Comma!? Maybe the Painted Lady flew off seconds before I pointed my camera?

a dark purple buddleia flower, with signs of browning in front of a beech hedge. On the flower are two butterflies feeding with closed wings. One is a Comma, with its ragged wing-edges and the tell-tale white comma mark in the middle. Below it, the other is a red admiral, with black, red and white markings.
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Mike maɪk

Gatekeeper butterflies are amongst the declining species on Uk The changing climate is influencing this, but also here local agricultural practices, including hedgerow management. This week, finally, I’ve spotted a few gatekeepers in the garden and on the lane, like this one resting at the foot of a hedgerow on warm dead foliage after the hedge has been cut for traffic management


an open-winged gatekeeper butterfly resting on warm dead foliage after the hedge has been cut for traffic management Its wings are orange, an eye spot in the corner of the upper wings. All wings have brown borders.
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Mike maɪk

Gatekeeper butterflies are amongst the declining species on Uk -my pic dates to last year, as I have yet to spot any in our local hedgerows. The changing climate is influencing this, but also here local agricultural practices, including hedgerow management.

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an open-winged gatekeeper butterfly resting in a holly hedge. Its wings are orange, an eye spot in the corner of the upper wings. All wings have brown borders.
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