Ban butterfly-killing pesticides for good ❌
Despite repeated promises to ban them, the UK Government has quietly granted yet another 'emergency' license to spray butterfly-killing pesticides across our fields this summer.
Collared Parachute for #StickOfTheWeek … and what a stick it is. #FungiFriends
Three species of Volucella enjoying Bramble (Rubus sp.) today in Bengeo garden: V.zonaria ♂, V.inflata ♀+♂ & V.pellucens ♀. Magnificent hoverflies. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social
Other arable bits about Kent.. Broad-leaved Cudweed Filago pyramidata, Spreading Hedge-parsley Torilis arvensis, Cornflower Centaurea cyanus and Poppy Papaver rhoeas
Wolf's Milk, Lycogala epidendrum, on dead Hazel wood at Happy Valley in Croydon. Starts off pink in colour, but then matures to grey/brown. I was very happy to see it! #SlimeMould
The sward of ancient sheep grazed limestone pasture with ant hills gathering thyme, red clover, Galium verum
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I just signed this, how about you?
Couldn't agree more - flea and tick insecticides for pets containing neonicotinoids should be banned to help save our seriously declining insect faunas, including pollinators but also less obviously useful to us insects, which are the basis of all food webs.
A limestone landscape, of sheep-grazed ancient grassland on the edge of t'moors
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Flowers just starting to bloom in Lye Valley fen - Purple Tufted Vetch Vicia cracca and maroon flowered Water Figwort Scrophularia auriculata both visible from the boardwalk. @friendlyevalley.bsky.social A pity too wet for any insect visitors #Wildflowerhour
Butterfly Conservation
Judy Webb
Judy Webb
Bernoid
Simon Knott
Moira O'Donnell
Lin Hawthorne
Lin Hawthorne
Alex Prendergast
Judy Webb
Butterflies cannot wait any longer. We're calling on ministers to do what they promised - set a deadline for an absolute ban on neonicotinoid pesticides. No 'emergency' authorisations. No exemptions.
Add your name to our open letter 👉 campaigns.butterfly-conservation.org/ban-pesticides
Butterfly Conservation
On this #PoisonedPlanet, private profit being put #PublicHealth and environmental and environmental stability
#Financialisation
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