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Update no 37 as at the 16th of September 2025 – including third brood Wall Brown seen in the County
Hello Everyone, A succession of Low Pressure systems spiralling across the Atlantic Ocean has left us all in no doubt that Autumn has finally arrived but at least the Reservoirs are beginning to fill up again after the warmest Summer ever. What was a surprise was to...
Update no 36 as at the 11th September 2025 – 2025 Big Butterfly Count results announced
Hello Everyone, Another very changeable week left us with no illusions that Autumn had finally arrived - this was reinforced by some volunteers failing to see a single butterfly on their transect in the County. With Derbyshire being such a diverse area, Chee Dale in...
Update no 34 as at the 2nd of September 2025 – Autumn has truly arrived!
Hello Everyone, It certainly feels like Autumn has arrived now with frequent showers and longer periods of rain interspersed with sunny intervals but the Met Office has confirmed that 2025 was the warmest Summer on record followed by 2018, 2006, 2003, 2022 and 1976....
Update no 34 as at the 26th of August 2025 – records crash as Autumn beckons!.
Hello Everyone, A coolish north east wind brought lots of cloud to the Region last week and it proved difficult to get Week 21 of the transect season completed, although the sunny weather over the Bank Holiday weekend certainly helped, - hence very few sightings have...
Update no 33 as at the 18th of August 2025 – yet more Clouded Yellow sightings in the County
Hello Everyone, After another heatwave during the last week, it now looks like a further decline in butterfly numbers and species has occurred, particularly in Lowland Derbyshire with only the Whitesbeing seen regularly in gardens and the general countryside but the...
Update no 32 as at the 11th of August 2025 – have butterfly numbers already peaked?
Hello Everyone, After another changeable week but with a hot and settled spell of weather with us now, have our butterfly numbers and species already peaked for 2025? It appears so as most Skippers, Hairstreaks and Ringlets are on a very steep decline but pleasingly...