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The Dorset Branch of Butterfly Conservation welcomes you to its website

Dorset is one of the best areas in the UK for butterflies and moths and we are a very active Branch of Butterfly Conservation. This website is designed to help you join our activities and enjoy our butterflies and moths, whether in reality or via the wonders of the internet.

Please join Butterfly Conservation to help us in our work to save butterflies and moths and their habitats.

You can report your Dorset butterfly sightings here.

This site is in the process of being revised, so please accept our apologies for any temporary gaps.

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NEWS WHITE HOLES PAGE NOW LINKS TO GOOGLE EARTH so you know where we particularly need you to record butterflies - click here.   NEW EVENT added on Macro Photography - see Events Page   DORSET COMES TOP for Wider Countryside recording - see Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey 2011 Newsletter PHOTO GALLERY NEEDS PHOTOS. We have now got our Photos page going and are looking for photos of butterflies and moths in Dorset. Could you send us something?

OUR NEXT EVENT IN 2012: SATURDAY 19 MAY    SAVE OUR BUTTERFLIES WEEK GUIDED WALK - LYSCOMBE FARM, PIDDLETRENTHIDE The all-day walk in this relatively secret valley will be over variable terrain, some steepish, looking at downland and arable reversion to species-rich grassland using seed harvested on the farm plus natural reversion. Target species include Marsh Fritillary and Adonis Blue. We will also visit a restored chapel. Meet at 11.00 am at the farm, map reference ST 735010 postcode DT2 7RF and bring packed lunch. Contact is Richard Belding on 01305 264868.   SAVE OUR BUTTERFLIES WEEK 19-27 MAY We have six butterfly walks during this period: - Piddletrenthide, Sat 19 - Ballard Down (Swanage), Sun 20 - Weymouth Relief Road, Wed 23 - Cashmoor Down (near Blandord), Thurs 24 - Lydlinch (North Dorset), Sat 26 - Cerne Abbas, Sun 27 see our events page for details.   NATIONAL MOTH NIGHTS - 21-23 JUNE For Dorset events click here For events elsewhere see www.mothnight.info   To see our extensive programme of walks, talks and conservation work days, go to the Events page.

 

We need to fill the map of Dorset with butterfly sightings - can you help?

 

All the white areas on the map above are ones where no butterfly has been reported in the last 2.5 years - and we've only got another 2.5 years to fill them.

See the White Holes page for further information.