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.
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Beautiful Butterflies (Watch Event)
This link will open on the Isle of Man Wildlife Trust website.
Navigate wildflowers in search of the Island’s most beautiful, winged friends!
Blue butterflies
See blue butterflies around the UK this summer! Marvel at the once extinct, still rare large blue at a handful of locations, or the more widespread common blue can be found throughout the country.
Wildlife Watch - Moths and butterflies (Family event)
This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.
Discover amazing moths and butterflies! Children learn why these insects matter and simple ways to help protect them.
Woodland butterflies
Head to the woods to enjoy some of Britain’s most dramatic and endangered butterflies. Caterpillars have particular plant requirements which restricts species to handful of special spots. Find one near you this summer.
Woodah Farm Rural Skills Centre
This link will open on the Devon Wildlife Trust website.
A former farmhouse in majestic grounds, now providing meeting areas and rural skills training venue.
Identify British butterflies
Spotted a butterfly but not sure what it is? Here are some common British butterflies you might see in your garden, and how to identify them.
Practical skills refresher at Foxburrow
This link will open on the Suffolk Wildlife Trust website.
A one day course for adults working with children & young people to hone skills used in Forest School sessions.
Learn to identify Butterflies
This link will open on the Shropshire Wildlife Trust website.
Butterfly expert Dr Simon Spencer will show how to identify a variety of butterflies through their markings, flight patterns, and other behaviours.
Butterflies without borders
Patrick Barkham reveals the secrets of how some butterflies, like the painted lady, are able to migrate from Africa to the UK.
WyNG Day of Butterflies - butterfly walk
This link will open on the Norfolk Wildlife Trust website.
Explore butterflies at NWT Lower Wood, Ashwellthorpe.
Grow a secret garden for butterflies!
• The Wildlife Trusts and RHS urge gardeners to help butterflies and moths for this year’s Wild About Gardens campaign
• Make a pledge for butterflies from 12th March!
• Campaign…