Dorset butterfly updates
Butterfly Conservation and the Dorset Wildlife Trust are working together to offer training days on assessing Marsh Fritillary habitats. Continue reading
The Barberry Carpet Moth suffered from the eradication of its food plant, Common Barberry, due to it being host to the wheat rust fungus. There are now rust-resistant wheat varieties, but almost too late for the moth. There are thought to be just ten populations of this moth left in the UK, mostly in Wiltshire, but also in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Dorset.
A team of BC and EuCAN volunteers are working alongside contractors with powertools to clear the former chalkpit on the north side of the Butterfly Conservation Butterfly Reserve at Lankham Bottom. Continue reading
Butterfly Conservation’s Conservation Officer, Rachel Jones, has revealed how working alongside the Dorset Wildlife Trust on the beautiful Isle of Portland has helped to protect the Silver-studded Blue butterfly. Continue reading
The Giant Hill Ecology Project takes place on the hill with the Cerne Giant. We just hope they are careful with their rakes and loppers or they could do him some painful damage! Malcolm Wemyss has reported on the latest conservation work undertaken. Continue reading
A huge congratulations to Butterfly Conservation’s Dr Martin Warren who has completed his Big Butterfly Hike, walking over 105 miles to save 3 threatened species: the Wood White, Duke of Burgundy and the High Brown Fritillary. Continue reading
Starting on Monday 27 July and ending on Sunday 2 August, the CEO of Butterfly Conservation, Dr Martin Warren, will be undertaking the challenge of walking the length of the Jurassic Coast, to save butterflies. Continue reading
One of Britain’s most rapidly declining butterflies is in trouble, right here on our doorstep. Continue reading
The Large Blue is aptly named, being indeed the largest and also rarest of the ‘blue’ butterflies in Britain but sadly, absent from Dorset. It is easily distinguished from other blues by the row of black spots on its upper forewing, the underside consisting of a pale brown colour dotted with a further array of black markings. Continue reading
The Dorset Wildlife Trust urgently needs your help before the 6th of February to get Eric Pickles to stop a damaging development on a nationally protected wildlife site in Dorset. Continue reading