A common blue rests on leaves on Hutchinson's Bank on June 02, 2025 in New Addington, United Kingdom. Hutchinson's Bank, which is managed by the London Wildlife Trust (LWT), is a large area of secluded chalk grassland and woodland, and one of the best spots in the whole of the United Kingdom to see butterflies. Around 42 of the UK's 59 species have been recorded here. Data recorded by the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) in 2024 paints a bleak picture for UK butterflies, with 51 of 58 species monitored showing a decline in numbers compared to 2023, making it the the 5th worst year on record, and over a third of the species showing a significant long-term decline. Conservationists have warned that butterflies are particularly vulnerable to environmental factors such as climate change and the use of pesticides, making them an important indicator for the state of biodiversity in the UK. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





A Privet Strider (Macrophya punctumalbum) sits on a leaf in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on May 27, 2025. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A damselfly is photographed at the Bois de Vincennes, a park in eastern Paris, on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Martin Lelievre/AFP Photo)





A bee sits on a dandelion flower in a park during a sunny day in Tallinn, Estonia, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





A Drosera capensis plant traps an insect at a carnivorous plants exhibit at the Botanical Garden in Bogota, Colombia, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)





A moth emerges from its cocoon sheltered in the gardens of the Natural History Museum, in Mexico City, May 29, 2025. (Photo by Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)





A bee lands on a crocus blossom in Zurich, Switzerland, 04 March 2025. (Photo by Ennio Leanza/EPA/EFE)





A bee explores the flowers in the woods of Dunsden, Oxfordshire, UK on June 2, 2025. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A gulf fritillary butterfly lands on a plant as people count them during the North American Butterfly Association Shark Valley butterfly count on May 10, 2025 in the Everglades, Florida. Dennis Olle, the president of the Miami Blue Butterfly chapter, who participated in the count said they saw approximately the same number as last year, a noticeable reduction from prior years. Reports indicate that the number of butterflies across all regions in the contiguous US was declining. The reports suggest that the butterfly populations are declining due to various factors, including habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and other environmental factors. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)





A bee hovers around a foxglove at Mellerstain House in the Scottish Borders in the second decade of June 2025. Heavy showers and thunderstorms are forecast on Saturday in Scotland and scattered showers, gradually clearing in the southeast. (Photo by Phil Wilkinson/The Times)





A swallowtail (Papilionidae) butterfly sits on a blooming flower inside a butterfly garden at the Benjakitti park in Bangkok, Thailand on May 18, 2025. (Photo by Manan Vatsyayana/AFP Photo)





A scarlet tiger caterpillar at Toronto Botanical Garden on June 2, 2025 in Ontario, Canada. Although it’s not scarlet itself, in butterfly form it has beautifully vivid red wings. (Photo by Mert Alper Dervis/Anadolu via Getty Images)





Honey bees are pictured in a beehive in Wehrheim near Frankfurt, Germany, on the “world bee day” on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)





Common blue butterflies bask in the sun on a high-altitude plain in Sarıkamış district, Kars, Turkey on June 11, 2025. In Kars, high altitude plateaus and pastures were covered with colorful flowers after the downpour. (Photo by Huseyin Demirci/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A male stag beetle walks on a branch in an oak forest near the Spree River in Kersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany, on June 8, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images)





An adult periodical cicada, in the process of shedding its nymphal skin, is seen on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Cincinnati. There are two large compound eyes, which are used to visually perceive the world around them, and three small, jewel-like, simple eyes called ocelli center. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)





The two additional dots on this kidney garden spider give it the appearance of Mr P, the logo on Pringles crisp packets. The spider was spotted in Balasore, Odisha, eastern India in the last decade of March 2025. (Photo by Sritam Kumar Sethy/Solent News & Photo Agency)





A butterfly is seen at the Tropical Butterfly Garden in Konya, Turkiye on April 23, 2025. Opened by Selcuklu Municipality in 2015, the 7,200-square-meter facility simulates equatorial climate conditions and hosts around 20,000 butterflies from 60 species, along with various tropical plants and insects. Visitors can observe butterflies throughout all stages of metamorphosis in a natural-like environment. (Photo by Cem Genco/Anadolu via Getty Images)





A gulf fritillary butterfly lands on a plant as people count them during the North American Butterfly Association Shark Valley butterfly count on May 10, 2025 in the Everglades, Florida. Dennis Olle, the president of the Miami Blue Butterfly chapter, who participated in the count said they saw approximately the same number as last year, a noticeable reduction from prior years. Reports indicate that the number of butterflies across all regions in the contiguous US was declining. The reports suggest that the butterfly populations are declining due to various factors, including habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and other environmental factors. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)





Two damselflies form a heart shape (almost) as they mate in warm weather in County Armagh, UK in the second decade of May 2025. (Photo by David Hunter/Alamy Live News)