Sharon Hearle

Simple but pretty effective way of stopping flea treatments from entering sensitive waterbodies.

Is 2025 (red lines) a good butterfly year? Yes, on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects there are more butterflies than in 2023 and 2024. Numbers almost exactly equal 2022. But look at the 1990s. Compared to then it is a poor butterfly year. Shifting baselines!

Scarce Pug on North Norfolk Coast yesterday -bit windy for photos. An increasingly rare moth.

Good to find continued presence of Kentish milkwort following new introduction of seedling plants by @speciesrecovery on newly created wildflower grassland. Lace border and black veined moth putting on a show too, as first time records on new sites. Farmers leading nature recov'

An incredible job opporuntunity: set up & run a new Suffolk nature charity with a guaranteed investment of £78 million investment over the next 70+ years. I am a founding Trustee. prospect-us-site.co.uk/east Please share @Bill_Sutherland @CCI_Cambridge @Selwyn1882

Exciting news! Twywell Hills & Dales has been added to the Northamptonshire Black Hairstreak distribution list today after the transect walker photographed one drying out its wing after recently emerging. There are more details here in this blog post! northantsbutterflies.com/blog/its-time-…

Good to see Small Tortoiseshell over the last few days Cambridgeshire and Essex

A record year for dukes with a total peak count of 590, a mix of well established colony sites, newly establishing colonies & record year for single dukes at new locations across the landscape. Thx to @BCkentBranch vols. Kent farmers creating new habitats, driving nature recovery

Horrendous sight outside pub in the Yorkshire Moors - even the cushions! @Shitlawns #BanPlasticTurf

During a successful search for larvae and pupae amongst the heather 🐛 🐜 , was not surprised to find a dozen SSB's already flying in Ipswich today, a fortnight ahead of schedule 🦋 @BC_Suffolk

Breckland Landscape Recovery getting it ‘just right’. Ambitious, but achievable. Complex enough to hit objectives for nature, but straightforward enough to actually be delivered. Enthusiastic, but realistic leadership. It’s conservation Baby Bear’s porridge. Well done them 👏👏

Thousands of Garden Tiger moth caterpillars at Spurn Head Yorkshire - never seen so many - everywhere up trees and on the beach. Also Brown- tail and Oak Eggar . @yorkshiremoths

Deeply saddened to hear of so many redundancies at @savebutterflies, most in front line butterfly+moth conservation. A huge loss of expertise just when needed. Also cessation of international work. Let’s hope their finances recover soon when so many species are in dire trouble

You will get more factory/mega farms You will get a less resilient and robust food system You will pay more for food, way more Nature will be vanish in loads of places where it could have have thrived And you will get a food system like in the states - dominated by corporates

Older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid is The South Zeal Menhir Standing Stone at The Oxenham Arms. Carved from Dartmoor granite by Neolithic people 5000 years ago

This evening, His Majesty The King received the President of Ukraine, @ZelenskyyUa, at Sandringham House. 🇺🇦

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This is devastating. A dedicated park ranger, fired overnight, left wondering how to support his family. Public servants shouldn’t be political casualties. Our national parks and the people who protect them deserve better. #ProtectPublicService #NationalParks

We are set up and ready to go at the Norwich Science Festival at the Forum. Come and say hi. @NorwichsciFest

Create #MoonMeadows for moths 🌙🌼 Moths are a vital part of the ecosystem, but they are threatened by light pollution. Discover how you can create a moon meadow and help our nighttime pollinators thrive with our free guide 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/moon-meadows-g… 📷: Patrick Clement