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Lysandra coridon - Chalkhill Blue by Eglė Vičiuvienė

Butterfly Banks springing to life

Eight experimental butterfly banks were built at Totternhoe and Pegsdon nature reserves in Bedfordshire almost two years ago; a recent vegetation and butterfly survey at Totternhoe shows how the…

Swallowtail display Museum of Zoology Caroline Fitton

Butterflies Through Time exhibition

A new exhibition at the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, tells the story of butterflies through time via their collections and invaluable notebooks

Hamearis lucina - Duke of Burgundy butterfly by Eglė Vičiuvienė

Banking on Butterflies

A pioneering project looking at creating new habitat banks for butterflies is now possible thanks to funding via the People’s Postcode Lottery Nature Based Solutions Fund

Trumpington Meadows by Caroline Fitton

Happy Birthday Trumpington Meadows!

The Trust is marking five years of managing Trumpington Meadows nature reserve. From an Anglo Saxon settlement to research on the Maris Piper potato to a thriving community with wildlife at its…

Small blue butterfly Tim Melling

A New Case of the Small Blues

Nationally scarce, rare in Cambridgeshire, a colony of small blue butterflies at Trumpington Meadows has been given time to establish, and this week their presence has now been officially and…

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