Butterflies
Even common butterflies have lost out as hedges and field edges rich in wild flowers and grasses have gone under the plough. So what can we do to help?
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Speckled wood butterfly - Vicky Nall
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Butterflies
Even common butterflies have lost out as hedges and field edges rich in wild flowers and grasses have gone under the plough. So what can we do to help?
Bryn Pydew Butterflies
Join us for a walk with naturalist and butterfly recorder Jonni Price around Bryn Pydew Nature Reserve in search of purple hairstreak butterflies and more
Woodland butterflies
Some searching may be needed for these specialists, but the reward makes the effort worthwhile!
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.
Hunting butterflies in magical meadows
Enjoy our showiest insects – and the flowers they depend on – at Cors Goch Nature Reserve
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.
Our latest news and blogs
All the latest wildlife and nature news for North Wales.
Beguiled by blues
Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.
Stop the Red Route - News update January 2021
Here is our latest update for our campaign to help save Leadbrook Woods and Meadows, Flintshire. The proposed 'Red Route' highway project is a 13km dual carriageway that would damage or…
My classroom
Pupils from Abingdon Primary School in Middlesbrough, Jon and Abdul, really enjoy learning outside the classroom, especially sketching butterflies.
Burnet companion
This day-flying moth is found on flowery meadows, often in the company of other moths and butterflies.