A West Somerset Exmoor estate has seen a resurgence of a rare butterfly species, once on the "brink of extinction".

More than 1,000 heath fritillaries have been recorded so far this year on the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate in Somerset.

Still others stack their eggs in little towers. Butterfly eggs can be round, ovoid, or shaped like little grains of rice. They can be red, yellow, green, white, cream, and more.

In fact around 1949 an elder brother had bought a first edition of E B Ford's 'Butterflies' (which I still possess) convinced he had seen a Silver Washed Fritillary and needed to be sure. He still ...

There are four stages to the life cycle of a butterfly (egg, larva, ... The gulf fritillary looks for passionflowers (Passiflora), like maypop, (Passiflora incarnata) ...

The regal fritillary butterfly thrives at Fort Indiantown Gap thanks to the site’s regular live-fire disturbances. Those conditions create the grasslands and plants the butterflies prefer.

More than 60 species of butterflies have been documented on the property, prompting the editors of Butterfly Gardener, a publication for members of the North American Butterfly Association, in ...

Anyone who has butterflies in their garden has been asked to take urgent action after worrying new figures showed numbers have plunged in the last 12 months. The latest annual results from the UK ...

Anyone with butterflies in garden asked to take action before 'it's too late' The latest annual results from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, show 'one of the worst years on record' in the UK ...

In addition to spotting one of the butterflies, they also found two butterfly eggs on the plant. The trio ended their day with more than two dozen species recorded, while Charlotte Reemts and her ...

Monarch eggs and adult butterflies were found on both native and non-native milkweeds. Adult monarchs were most numerous in summer and least abundant in winter. Similarly, the number of adult ...

Species such as the great crested newt and marsh fritillary butterfly have been relocated and new habitats created for bats, dormouse and lapwing, and more than 55,000 trees have been planted ...