Wildlife lovers are being urged to help chart the progress of comma butterflies, labelled the “comeback kid” after seeing populations soar 138% in 40 years. At the turn of the 20th century, the ...

A British butterfly is flying high again after coming back from the brink of extinction. The Comma, named for the white punctuation mark shape on the underside of its wings, was close to dying out a ...

A butterfly once thought to be dying out in the UK has colonised Scotland, thanks to the stinging nettle. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour of Scotland emailed direct ...

A butterfly that was once thought to be dying out in the UK has colonised Scotland. The comma butterfly was in severe decline in the 20th Century and had become restricted to south east England and ...

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 ...

Strategies vary from hibernating as adult butterflies to forming a chrysalis – or by not being in the country at all Surviving winter is the ultimate challenge for the 60 butterfly species that make ...