Dorset butterfly updates
Receiving a photo of a Silver-studded Blue, on the wing at the earliest date for the ten years this website has been recording, led us to look at other emergence dates. Continue reading
Our Butterfly Reserve at Alners Gorse will be closed to the public on Saturday 31 May for a private event. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
We have had a request from Darren Cook of the National Trust for transect walkers on three sites, all in Purbeck. Continue reading
We apologise to members for the delay in getting out our newsletter. Continue reading
Those of you who have been around us for a while will remember Kathie and Richard Clarke from when they ran our sales stall. Kathie has passed away, and there will be a Thanksgiving service Continue reading
We have two important sites for butterflies which need more people to monitor them, and both are hilly, so you can count butterflies and get fit at the same time! Continue reading
Spring is here! The birds are singing and ten species of butterfly have been sighted: it’s going to be a good butterfly year!
Five transect (butterfly monitoring) walks in North Dorset are having problems with not enough people to cover all the weeks needed Continue reading
We are delighted – if somewhat surprised, given the recent weather – to have had a Red Admiral reported, seen on 2 January 2025 in Broadstone. (Not the one in the photo above, which is from our archives). Continue reading
As we said in an earlier article, we are trying to beat our previous record of filling 2609 (89.5%) of the kilometre squares in Dorset with at least one butterfly record.
As of now (1 December) we are up to 2,606: just 4 squares short of beating our record. Continue reading
We will be having our annual AGM/AMM on 2 November. We need help with various tasks and committee roles. Continue reading