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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group

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The IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group works to inform about and conserve butterflies and moths and their habitats around the world.

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Jeroen 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
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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...
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Go Team Tiger Beetle - could this be the "Upset" Conservation Challenge? Let's make it happen! 🪲🐞 Keep voting everybody! #uproarchallenge uproar.indianapoliszoo.com
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Uproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Great 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 #UproarChallenge
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Uproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Please 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
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Butterfly Conservation Europe @europebutterfly.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Let’s do it. A call for Global Butterfly Monitoring. These insects can tell us a lot about the health of our planet
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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/...
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Addressing Gaps in Butterfly Population Monitoring to Catalyze Global Insect Conservation
The 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...
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Round 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
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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? 🤣🤣🤣
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Uproar Conservation Challenge, presented by T-Fiber – A New Initiative of the Indianapolis Zoo
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Voting 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
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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
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We'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...
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Mounting risks threaten survival of wild European pollinators – IUCN Red List
Abu 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...
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As 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...
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Big, Beautiful Swallowtails
Swallowtails 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...
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ZSL @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… #TheRuffordFoundation
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Swallowtail of the Month #1: Common Swallowtail (Troides helena) Photo credit @Chooi-Khim Phon
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Happy #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!
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a butterfly is sitting on a red flower in a garden
ALT: a butterfly is sitting on a red flower in a garden
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wishing our friends at @sbbtrust.bsky.social a wonderful day with many swallowtails! #WorldSwallowtailDay
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Happy #WorldSwallowtailDay! Watch this space for the launch of our new #SwallowtailoftheMonth feature later today, and learn all about our Global Swallowtail Assessment!
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Great 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!
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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...
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Global hotspots of butterfly diversity are threatened in a warming world - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Butterflies are a large, functionally important and charismatic invertebrate group. Here, the authors characterize global macroecological patterns of butterflies and project shifts in their bioclimati...
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Global Center for Species Survival @protectspecies.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
From @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/...
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See How Butterflies Are Surviving, or Not, Near You
Populations are falling in the United States, a new study has found. Look up what’s happening in your area.
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Sobering 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!
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IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group @iucnbutterflysg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We've fluttered onto @bsky.app! Follow us to hear the latest IUCN SSC Butterfly & Moth Specialist Group news and other Lepidoptera information!
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