Wildlife gardening: Flowers to attract bees and butterflies
Ben's here to give you some ideas for the best plants for pollinators in your garden.
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A guide to the blue butterflies
Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.
A good summer for moths and butterflies?
The hot summer has seen lots of invertebrates on the wing, but what is the impact of heatwaves and drought?
Gardening with butterflies in mind
Sarah Ronan, one of BBOWT’s volunteer butterfly surveyors, shares her two top tips for turning your garden into a butterfly haven.
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
How to help your garden butterflies and moths
Do your bit for our butterflies and moths by making your garden more butterfly-friendly, and take the butterfly pledge!
Small white
The small white is a common garden visitor. It is smaller than the similar large white, and has less black on its wingtips.
Good news for two of BBOWT's butterfly species in the State of the UK Butterflies Report 2015
Today’s The State of the UK’s Butterflies 2015 report from Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology shows that more than three-quarters of the UK’s butterflies have declined…
Surveying our community orchard and chasing butterflies
Rough Around the Edges project officer Katie Horgan gives an update on her groups' latest activities across the Chilterns, including surveying plants in a community orchard, an informal…
Take part in a festive challenge to explore wildlife this winter!
How will you get closer to nature during 12 Days Wild?
Egg count shows Oxfordshire nature reserve a refuge for threatened butterflies
A recent egg count by the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) reveals stable numbers of brown hairstreak butterflies on its Oxfordshire site, despite increasing…
Wildlife to find this June
As the year warms up, look out for summer butterflies and beetles on the wing, vibrant wildflower meadows, and our more elusive nocturnal wildlife…