UK Butterflies

UK Butterflies is a massive resource of butterfly information.  Run by just a few individuals it contains comprehensive data on all UK butterflies and rare immigrants.  It's individual species page, blogs and member reports of where and what they have seen are truly helpful if you wish to find some of the rarer species.  I highly recommend it if you need any info on any species.

Butterfly Conservation is a wonderful organisation.  Founded in 1968 it carries out pioneering work in trying to reverse the dramatic declines in Butterfly and Moth populations over the last 50 years.  It runs over 30 Nature Reserves and also co-ordinates the most long-running and comprehensive citizen-science survey of any insect group on the planet.  It's findings feed into various multi-disciplinary reports on the state on nature in the UK and as such helps to influence and change UK and European policy and legislation.  It is a registered charity.  Click here for membership details

For your smart phone they have also developed a great free app - iRecord Butterflies - available in your usual app store. It's butterfly guide is truly amazing when out and about; or just browsing at any time.  I highly recommend it.