The gatekeeper butterfly is poised on a nettle as if it's waiting. With the same brown, white-pupil eye-spots on its wings as meadow brown butterflies, of which there are more this year than I've seen ...

The Big Butterfly Count has reported a general decline, with fewer butterflies spotted overall. Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has described the findings of the exercise, which took place ...

A warm and sunny spell in the summer of 2022 led to increased sightings of certain butterfly species such as the Gatekeeper and Common Blue but overall numbers are still “worryingly low”, experts have ...