Where do butterflies go in winter?
Insects are a lot less obvious in winter. It’s a tough time to be active, with cold weather, storms and a shortage of food. Butterflies mostly disappear, popping up again as spring approaches and…
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Winter Wildlife Explorer Pack
Turn your winter walk into a wild adventure- hire a Winter Wildlife Explorer Pack!
Breathtaking butterflies and magnificent moths
Our blogger finds insects to set your heart aflutter at a former quarry in East Yorkshire.
Utterly flutterly butterflies
Butterflies are a summer delight, flashes of colour dancing in amongst the leaves. Learn to recognise some of our common species, and how you can help them.
Ingleborough's Iconic Wildlife
Home to some of the best limestone pavements in the country, brightly coloured patches of grassland wildflowers, and extremely rare flowers, our great mountain lies in a truly unique and special landscape. In fact, it’s estimated that Ingleborough and the surrounding landscape is home to a third of the UK’s plant species. Species which in turn provide places for butterflies and birds to rest, feed and find a home.
Where have all the butterflies gone?
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and Butterfly Conservation work closely together each year to survey and monitor butterfly numbers on our reserves. Nick Hall, Yorkshire Transect Co-ordinator for…
Butterflies Surprise at Barlow Common
Telling our story volunteer Howard Roddie didn’t know the difference between a red admiral and a comma butterfly, so he booked a place on the volunteer butterfly surveyor training. He took a few…
How to attract butterflies to your garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Creating a nature reserve: Parson’s Carr
We are expanding homes for nature from our Potteric Carr reserve outwards, extending a green oasis into the industrial heartland of Doncaster and a brand new nature reserve.
Our reserves…
Explore the coast
The Yorkshire coast is a special place to a variety of wildlife. We want to give you the tools and information to be able to explore these in your own time.
Why should we garden with wildlife in mind?
Gardening for wildlife benefits birds, butterflies, hedgehogs and even you! Read on to discover more...
Explore and discover
Get your wellies on - we're off an adventure! All you need to help you learn about the amazing wildlife Yorkshire has to offer while you're out and about.