Pesticides that were scrutinized for harming bees may be contributing to the decline of the butterfly population, a new study shows. Scientists blame neonicotinoids or anti-sap-feeding insect ...

Small tortoiseshell butterfly numbers have declined 86% since the 1970s (Alamy/PA) Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate ...

Good news! The Large Tortoiseshell butterfly is thriving once again in the UK, after new sightings in Portland, Dorset, confirm that the species is resident. Over the past 70 years, sightings of the ...

THE male small tortoiseshell butterfly is fiercely defensive: throw a stick nearby and it leaps up like a Labrador retriever to attack it. The aptly named dingy skipper is the ugliest butterfly ...