Reposted by IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist GroupJeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 03/07/2026@europebutterfly.bsky.social @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social @ipbes.net @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social @butterfly-project.bsky.social @wildbeesnorway.bsky.social @wildbeesaustria.bsky.social 074
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026📣EUROPEAN RED LIST OF MOTHS PUBLISHED!📣 A m(amm)oth task - huge congratulations to the team! Spoiler: >3000 species assessed at the European level, 704 of them endemic. Ca. 25% are listed as Data Deficient & 11% threatened with extinction. op.europa.eu/en/publicati... 09056
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Go Team Tiger Beetle - could this be the "Upset" Conservation Challenge? Let's make it happen! 🪲🐞 Keep voting everybody! #uproarchallenge uproar.indianapoliszoo.comuproar.indianapoliszoo.comUproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo 000
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Great to see that an invert made it to the final round! We're rooting for you, Bolivian Ornate Tiger Beetle! Let's bring this home! Voting closes on 4 April @ 1:30pm Eastern Time. You can vote daily, from different devices! uproar.indianapoliszoo.com #UproarChallengeuproar.indianapoliszoo.comUproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo 000
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Please continue to vote in the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! In Round 3 (closing TOMORROW) we are taking on the White-Rumped Vulture! Take a standard 30cm ruler: #DYK the female birdwing can measure 28cm tip to tip? That's NEARLY a ruler! It's BIG! @protectspecies.bsky.social 110
Reposted by IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist GroupButterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Let’s do it. A call for Global Butterfly Monitoring. These insects can tell us a lot about the health of our planet 0114
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026🚨🚨🚨Publication alert! 🚨🚨🚨 Taking a breather from #uproarchallenge, there's a new paper online today that was several years in the making (all the best papers are!): conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.comAddressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect ConservationThe conservation community sorely lacks a global indicator of change in insect populations. Given widespread insect declines, addressing this gap is key for conservation and policy targets. We sugges... 1156
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026Round 2 voting is underway for the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! Help the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing reach Round 3 for an even greater conservation prize! Voting ends 23 March @ 23:59 Eastern Time! You can now vote DAILY! Share & vote now! #uproarchallenge 154
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 17/03/2026📣📣📣 People of Gillingham! This is wonderful news! 👏👏👏 Please vote for the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing in the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! uproar.indianapoliszoo.com Are we getting too invested? 🤣🤣🤣uproar.indianapoliszoo.comUproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo 020
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Voting has now opened for Round 1 of the Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge! #Uproarchallenge Our friends at eButterfly posted this blog on why you should vote for the spectacular Queen Alexandra's Birdwing! e-butterfly.org/en/content/t... Vote here: uproar.indianapoliszoo.com 032
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 13/03/2026🚨The Indianapolis Zoo Uproar Conservation Challenge is here!🚨 You can help the LARGEST BUTTERFLY IN THE WORLD, the Queen Alexandra Birdwing & the IUCN Butterfly & Moth #SpecialistGroup advance through Round 1! Round 1 voting: March 16-19 @ UproarChallenge.com #UproarChallenge 142
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025We're proud to have supported this effort to reassess the butterflies to Europe, but the results are sobering: Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List iucncongress2025.org/newsroom/all...iucncongress2025.orgMounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red ListAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 11 October 2025 (IUCN) – Nearly 100 additional wild bee species in Europe have been classified as threatened in a new assessment for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Sp... 162
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025As June comes to a close, we reflect on swallowtails (it was World Swallowtail Day this month, thanks to @sbbtrust.bsky.social!) & the work still ahead on the IUCN Red List Global Swallowtail reassessment. Thanks for posting, @protectspecies.bsky.social! www.indianapoliszoo.com/gcss/blog/bi...indianapoliszoo.comBig, Beautiful SwallowtailsSwallowtails are the flamboyant rockstars of the butterfly world! They are large, colorful and frankly spectacular butterflies in the family Papilionidae which contains around 580 species. Some have b... 142
Reposted by IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist GroupZSL @zslofficial.bsky.social · 08/06/2025🎙️ Listen to #swallowtail experts @sbbtrust.bsky.social & @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social in episode 21 of the ZSL Wild Science podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/68fzMl… #TheRuffordFoundationopen.spotify.com 064
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Swallowtail of the Month #1: Common Swallowtail (Troides helena) Photo credit @Chooi-Khim Phon 221
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Happy #WorldSwallowtailDay! We are excited to launch our "Swallowtail of the Month" feature in celebration of today, but acknowledging that for many of us, World Swallowtail Day is EVERY day! If you have a favourite swallowtail, let us know. We would like to feature your favourites too!media.tenor.coma butterfly is sitting on a red flower in a gardenALT: a butterfly is sitting on a red flower in a garden 200
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Wishing our friends at @sbbtrust.bsky.social a wonderful day with many swallowtails! #WorldSwallowtailDay 020
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Happy #WorldSwallowtailDay! Watch this space for the launch of our new #SwallowtailoftheMonth feature later today, and learn all about our Global Swallowtail Assessment! 031
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Great yet alarming work by @pro-pink.bsky.social & collaborators! Time to increase our efforts to assess, plan and ACT for (especially mountain, but also all) butterflies! 011
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025🚨"We project that up to 64% of the temperature niche space of butterflies in tropical realms will erode by 2070" thus turning mountains - known centers of butterfly diversity - from refugia to traps for butterfly diversity. Another sobering outlook for butterflies! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comGlobal hotspots of butterfly diversity are threatened in a warming world - Nature Ecology & EvolutionButterflies are a large, functionally important and charismatic invertebrate group. Here, the authors characterize global macroecological patterns of butterflies and project shifts in their bioclimati... 046
Reposted by IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist GroupGlobal Center for Species Survival @protectspecies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025From @nytimes.com, “Butterfly populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.” Don't forget to follow @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social, which recently joined Bluesky. 🌍🧪🦋 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comSee How Butterflies Are Surviving, or Not, Near YouPopulations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area. 032
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Sobering news this week: 20 years of butterfly population data shows severe declines across the USA! See link to paper below + @xercessociety.bsky.social press release! 133
IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025We've fluttered onto @bsky.app! Follow us to hear the latest IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group news and other Lepidoptera information! 040