The Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) uses a random sampling framework to assess the status of common and widespread butterfly species.
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Our latest book The Butterflies of London (published for @LNHSoc) has now gone to print & the pre-publication offer is now on - pre-order here bit.ly/3UQdmRI for delivery in early January 2025 & save £9.95 on published price @WildLondon @savebutterflies @ukbutterflies
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Bee inspired!
Heard our latest podcast episode and want to help monitor pollinators? 🐝🪲🦋
Download the FIT Count app and spend 10 minutes watching flowers and insects in good weather!
📲 buff.ly/3KwilSb
#pollinators @PoMScheme
ALT Person kneeling in front of flowers holding the FIT Count app
ALT Close-up of hand holding phone with FIT Count app
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Our new 2023 annual report is available on the PoMS website ukpoms.org.uk/reports - survey news and results, hidden secrets found with DNA barcoding, volunteering views and more on #pollinators. Thanks to all contributors and our brilliant survey participants #VolunteersWeek
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📢Come and join the @savebutterflies team! 1 year Ecological #Statistician post analysing big datasets for #butterflies and #moths 🦋🐛💻 UK home-based. Deadline 10th July. Details here butterflyconservation.liveva… Please share!
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Love the UKBMS? Consider joining our team and be a part of one of the world most important insect surveys. We are recruiting now for a Butterfly Monitoring Officer.
butterfly-conservation.org/j…
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Weather (17 degrees and sunny 👏) finally gave me a chance for my 1st @ChilternsCCC Tracking the Impact @WCBSLive survey today 👍 2 Green Hairstreaks the highlight. Got bit sidetracked by Grass Snake and Slow Worms under the reptile tins 🤫 and the amazing Fly Orchids too 👍
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New #BTOScience predicts abundance of butterflies in different urban landscapes.
Thanks to volunteer-collected data from @WCBSLive this research reveals future potential for better design of urban spaces for biodiversity.
👉 tinyurl.com/urban-butterflie……
#CitizenScience
Via @_BTO
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Hi @MOTHIDUK is this a Box tree? In my garage this morning in South Staffs. @WCBSLive @StaffsInverts @ConopsEnto #moths
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Thought it was going to rain but instead it stayed good for our WCBS transect in the corn fields of Northamptonshire - 326 butterflies recorded with 108 Gatekeeper, 54 Red Admirals and 97 Whites and 14 species in total
@BedsNthantsBC @missingmass1 @WCBSLive @enviromentalist
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** BUTTERFLY EVENT**
Next Wednesday 2nd August at Lyveden New Bield, Northants
@BedsNthantsBC @butterflydoug1
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We are delighted to announce the first in a new series of PoMS annual reports. Catch up with the latest #pollinator survey updates from 2022, and see some first views of the results since UK PoMS started. Download (English & Welsh) from ukpoms.org.uk/reports
ALT Front cover of the UK PoMS Annual Report 2022, showing an image of a solitary bee on apple blossom, and logos for PoMS, UKCEH and JNCC
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One week today! Dr. Oli Pescott (UKCEH) considers the research and conservation applications of NPMS data in this free online webinar. You can register here ow.ly/nesX50OOiP6
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A huge thankyou to surveyor Emma Smart @smartyfish for her brilliant footage filmed at the beautiful Portland WCBS square. Celebrating Emma and all the other @UKBMSLive and @WCBSLive surveyors who contribute so much to science, research and conservation. @_BTO @UK_CEH @JNCC_UK
The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (@UKBMSLive) has been tracking the fortunes of butterfly populations across the UK for over 40 years and volunteer citizen scientists are at the 💚 of this effort!
Find out how you can take part 👉 ukbms.org/
#VolunteersWeek
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Records are flooding in!
Across Martin Down & Allenford #FarmerCluster (2/3 MDSupercluster) we have 3 long standing Pollard Walks @UKBMSLive surveyed wkly from 1/4 - 29/9 & 12 @WCBSLive surveying two parallel 1km long transects subdivided into 10 sections in June&July
#DataIsKey
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Great working with @drdcarpenter 👏 to produce data analysis mapping for 1st 2 years of @ChilternsCCC #trackingtheimpact project. Simple & effective basis for long term landscape scale tracking 👍 Cant wait to share with our amazing volunteers tomorrow
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Aged 14-24 and interested in conservation and the environment? 🦋🌳
@savebutterflies would love to hear from you! Details and how to get in touch👇
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Recruiting volunteers for @ChilternsCCC Tracking the Impact project. Landscape scale monitoring across 75 1km squares in partnership with @BBS_birds @WCBSLive @theNPMS Also survey methodology & species ID training courses to develop skills. Info & sign up chilternsaonb.org/trackingth…
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58 butterflies on our WCBS square today in the parched cornfields of Northamptonshire. Mainly Whites but also Common Blues and Brown Argus. @missingmass1 @BedsNthantsBC @WCBSLive @enviromentalist
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Here's the recording of the @savebutterflies UK Butterfly Recorders' Meeting: bit.ly/3LpF5BE The UKBMS 2021 results are revealed as are the mysteries of Painted Lady Migration. Here's a poster about the amazing migration: bit.ly/3Dz8O8n Image by Iain H Leach
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Another wee plug for our new paper on brownfield sites, out this week. When the pandemic put a stop to fieldwork, the tremendous datasets of @BBS_birds, @WCBSLive and @theNPMS helped us to continue our research on these surprisingly important places!
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