Butterfly Conservation Europe

23/07/2025

🌍🦋 Catalina Trail’s discovery changed the future for monarch butterflies!
For many years, no one knew where the monarch butterflies would spend the winter. In 1975, she and Kenneth Brugger found a summit called Cerro Pelón where the trees and even the ground were covered with millions of resting butterflies. The secret winter home of millions of monarchs in Mexico was discovered, solving a mystery that had puzzled scientists for decades. Her find led to the creation of protected reserves, now part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Catalina’s story is dramatized in the movie “Flight of the butterflies”. Today, she still inspires butterfly lovers everywhere. She says, “I’m just a gardener who likes insects,”—but her impact is truly global. 💛🧡

15/07/2025

Agriculture affects pollinators🐝🐞🦋 small changes to the mowing patterns can help a lot!
A new study from 🇧🇪 Belgian researchers have found that using curved mowing patterns in grasslands has positive effects on pollinators compared to conventional block cutting, and can rapidly increase bee and butterfly diversity.

Learn more 👉 https://europa.eu/!wCTw9P

Curvier and more varied mowing patterns = better for pollinators 🐝🐞🦋

🇧🇪 Belgian researchers have found that using curved mowing patterns in grasslands has positive effects on pollinators compared to conventional block cutting, and can rapidly increase bee and butterfly diversity.

Learn more 👉 https://europa.eu/!wCTw9P

14/07/2025

🦋🏔𝗠𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆! The best of the best: a great tour to enjoy next year in the French and Spanish Pyrenees, guided by Kate Humble. 🤩 There are still spaces available — look at the post Mariposa Nature Tours for more information. 👇

11/07/2025

🦋🤩A lot of butterfly activities! This time in the Karkonosze National Park, in Poland 🇵🇱
Recently a was done together with our Polish colleagues Łaskotani motyla skrzydłami and LIFE Apollo2020 a wonderful time to promote the importance of butterflies, the protected species and possibly the establishment of 🦋monitoring. Thank you so much for your great work.🙏💚 😍

11/07/2025

We have lovely butterflies in Europe, but Uganda is a whole other story! Greenwings Wildlife Tours is offering a new tour of 🦋🦋Uganda next spring.
Take a look at the information below 👇

🦋 Top Tour Alert! 🦋

If you're looking for an exciting butterfly tour, we've got just the thing - a unique tour in Uganda featuring:

- Small group of 6 guests for maximum photography & viewing

- Over 1,200 species recorded in the region, and up to 250-300 possible on this tour

- Visit the best sites under the guidance of our 2 expert leaders

- possibility of extending your stay to see primates or maybe the prehistoric Shoebill!

Find out more & book your seat on this confirmed to run tour here....

https://greenwings.co/our-holidays/butterfly-holidays/butterflies-of-uganda/

As with all our butterfly tours, we will make a donation to our friends at Butterfly Conservation Europe too - you can 'observe & conserve' nature with Greenwings!

10/07/2025

on butterfly training in Bulgaria! 🦋🇧🇬
A few weeks ago, a field course took place to teach trainees about butterfly monitoring, biology, and identification as part of the EU project EPIC-Butterfly, which we are involved in.
The trainees had a great time enjoying the world of butterflies (they even saw the six 🦋families in Europe) thanks to the trainer and the efforts of Pirin National Park.

09/07/2025

☀"It is the height of summer in Europe, a time when many people head out into nature or to enjoy urban greenspaces . But over recent decades, people are seeing landscapes with fewer and fewer butterflies."
🦋📉 The starting of this article summarises the latest European monitoring data used to calculate the latest (GBI) for the period 1991–2023. Unfortunately, we don't have good news: the number of butterflies has decreased by more than 50% in recent decades in the EU 🇪🇺 More information and details will follow soon.
https://www.naturetoday.com/intl/en/nature-reports/message/?msg=34063

It is the height of summer in Europe, a time when many people head out into nature or to enjoy urban greenspaces . But over recent decades, people are seeing landscapes with fewer and fewer butterflies.

08/07/2025

diurnal and nocturnal species 🦋🦋 lovely painting 🩵❤️

Mariposas.

02/07/2025

Most common butterflies to see in July, both day and night, in and surroundings 🇱🇹
Not all butterflies that fly during the day are day butterflies😃 you can also find moths! 🦋🦋
Both can be registered in and

Ne visi drugiai, kurie skraido dieną, yra dieniniai drugiai :D
Skamba painiai? Iš pradžių taip ir yra :)

O čia galite pamatyti kokie drugiai dažniau matomi liepos mėnesį, tiek dieniniai, tiek naktiniai.

🦋Ar žinojote, kad marguoliai, nors yra aktyvūs dieną, sistematiškai nėra priskiriami dieniniams drugiams?

🦋Išreikškite savo nuomonę komentaruose: Ar pritartumėte, kad dieniniai ir naktiniai drugiai būtų pervadinti į buožaūsius drugius ir įvairiaūsius drugius, kas geriau atspindėtų jų skirstymą? O gal turite savo pasiūlymą?

30/06/2025

📣Check out this study on 🦋 in three biogeographical regions: 🇸🇪 🇷🇴 🇪🇸
We wanted to see if the weather would be suitable across different bio-geographic regions, or if it would still have an impact on monitoring ☀🌦💨
The results showed that the standard weather conditions for the European BMS appeared appropriate for three different biogeographical and climatic regions across Europe. However, flower density 🌼🌺🌸was identified as an important factor affecting butterfly abundance and it is recommended that it be recorded as a variable in
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-025-00680-w

Butterflies and moths have often been suggested as suitable indicators for monitoring environmental effects on biodiversity, land use changes and managemen