The first 2013 meeting of the Isle of Wight Butterfly Conservation Group took place today under cloudy skies.A walk along Wheelers Bay at V...

The summer like weather of a few days ago has gone and today it was much cooler with a strong wind.Still the sun was shining,and with the b...

With the cold weather now hopefully over emergent butterflies are appearing at their usual sites.At the Afton Down Chalkpit,well known for ...

The end of April has finished with some perfect spring weather.This week has continued sunny and mild and as a result new butterfly sightin...

With the report of two Painted Ladies at Wheelers Bay this week I went to the Bay in the hope of a sighting.The weather has now become spri...

The male Large Tortoisehell at Walters Copse seems not to be going anywhere which is great news for butterfly watchers.An early visit to th...

With all the excitement of a rare butterfly on the Island in the last few days I have  neglected to show what I consider to be most colourf...

Just when I feared that  the euphoria of  the 2012 sighting at Walters Copse,Newtown of the Large Tortoiseshell was a 'flash in the pan...

This time last year we were enjoying a period of rather dry weather with very mild temperatures.As a result butterfly emergences began earl...

After what proved to be the coldest March for over fifty years April has begun with plenty of sunshine for us on the Isle of Wight.However ...

I did not expect my first post of 2013 to be so early for a British sighting but following a report of a Painted Lady butterfly on the Isla...

For the last two weeks the sun has not shined for any prolonged time until today.Along with the sunshine came a cold wind and temperatures ...

With a bumper harvest of blackberries this year the autumn butterflies are making the most of it.Today at Clamerkin NT eight Commas still t...