Screening with Q&A last night of Searching for Satyrus, a wonderful film by Rena Effendi at the Regent Street Cinema, London.

Screening with Q&A last night of Searching for Satyrus, a wonderful film by Rena Effendi at the Regent Street Cinema, London.

last night, Screening with Q&A of “Searching for Satyrus”, a wonderful film by Rena Effendi, at the Regent Street Cinema, London #@regentstcinema.bsky.social

Holly Blue butterfly on flower of Alkanet plant.

Holly Blue earlier today, Ravenscourt Park, London W6.

Fifty years of data reveal specialist butterflies disappearing across UK An extraordinary dataset of over 44 million records from 782,000 volunteer surveys has revealed what has happened to the UK's butterflies as the national landscape has changed over the past 50…

UKBMS results out today!

Results from fifty years of butterfly monitoring! The UKBMS data reveals declines in 33 species over the last 50 years.

Check out the full story below butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

And the full 2025 statistics can be found here: jncc.gov.uk/our-work/off...

50 years of the incredible UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme @ukbms.bsky.social - amazing citizen science showing the decline of the UK’s butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gray whales are entering San Francisco Bay and many aren’t surviving Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply. But this un...

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 13, 2026 ~ The long goodbye.

"Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply."

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Phoenix Farm in White City drop in sessions start this Saturday 10-1pm. All welcome

If you live in, say, Finchley and want to send a birthday card to someone in, say, Brixton, it's now cheaper to get the bus there and stick the card through their door yourself. At least you'd know it'd got there.

A Peacock butterfly in a garden, Henley-On-Thames, this Easter Sunday

Peacock, somewhat tattered, Easter Sunday, Henley-On-Thames

In the BlueSky tradition of 'here's a nice thing but here's how it's problematic':

Is Attenborough right to claim that gardens in England cover a greater area than all of our National Nature Reserves?

Technically, yes: but I think it’s a misleading comparison that lets government off the hook...1/

Management consultants are ruining UK universities Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇
www.ft.com/content/5032...

Born on this day 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Four wives, two passports and a very elusive butterfly: one woman’s search for her lepidopterist father Rena Effendi’s film Searching for Satyrus began with a quest for the endangered insect that bears her family name. Before long, she was reckoning with secrets, lies and the mysterious life of her wayw...

This is such a beautiful film - a must for butterfly lovers but everyone else as well. Screenings from April 19 - go and see it in a cinema! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

The very gorgeous bank vole from my book Garden Safari, and also featured on the One Show! @mammalsociety.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social

HCGA are recruiting school gardeners due to an expansion of our programmes in west London. For more info www.rootstowork.org

Gail Myerscough | Surface Pattern Designer & Illustrator | Manchester Explore bold and colourful designs by Gail Myerscough, featuring prints, homewares, and stationery. Designed in Manchester, made in the UK.

Hello!
It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business.
My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares, T-shirts and cards.
I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing.
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Reposts appreciated, last day tomorrow, cheers. x

A collage of nine images featuring prints, a cushion, a mug, a T-shirt and a phone case.

I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment.
Take a look at my wares and please repost.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
Thanks!

Southall park confirmed as local nature reserve by council Warren Farm in Southall is already home to nesting skylarks, wildflowers, butterflies and bees.

This is truly excellent news! Well done to all those involved! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @savebutterflies.bsky.social @warrenfarmnr.bsky.social

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

Sick of hearing miserable wildlife news? Yes, us too.

What a delight to hear @savebutterflies.bsky.social declare Large Tortoiseshell is, for the first time in decades, a resident British breeding butterfly.

Great piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social today:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Caturday

Cat looking out of a window at a(plastic]pigeon on the window ledge.

Cat at window observing a pigeon. I realised it was a plastic pigeon when I noticed it had’t move a muscle for a several hours. (can’t speak for the cat).

Protect caterpillars as UK’s moth population plummets, urge charities Protect caterpillars as UK’s moth population plummets, urge charities: Instead of removing plant-munching caterpillars, gardeners asked to take relaxed attitude to support the moths many of them grow into As spring unfolds and plants come to life, gardeners often fight a losing battle aga...

Protect caterpillars as UK’s moth population plummets, urge charities: Instead of removing plant-munching caterpillars, gardeners asked to take relaxed attitude to support the moths many of them grow into As spring unfolds and plants come to life, gardeners often fight a losing battle aga...

Comma butterfly basking in sunshine on log. Shepperton today

Comma butterfly basking on log in sunshine. Shepperton today

Comma, Shepperton, today.

Community gardens: solving the problem of food security Food insecurity, poor quality diet, stress and lack of green spaces: all are linked to the obesity epidemic. Here's one holistic solution

Food insecurity, poor quality diet, stress and lack of green spaces: all are linked to the obesity epidemic. Here's one holistic solution | Prof Neli Demireva

HCGA was delighted to win an award from the Hammersmith Society for the planting and maintenance of the suds beds in King Street. @hammersmithsociety.org.uk

I heard, they’ve got chips on their shoulders.

Pochin's comments can never be excused.

'If my thought-dreams could be seen...' Stuck inside one Bob Dylan song in a time of chaos A strange edition of this newsletter for strange times.

NEW | This year is starting so grimly that I’ve taken a break from the present to travel back to 1978….

'If my thought-dreams could be seen...' Stuck inside one Bob Dylan song in a time of chaos

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/if-my-thou...

Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.

The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...