Butterflies Starting Page

by Henk van Nieuwenhoven. The best butterfly websites availble on the Internet

European butterfly recording

The aim of this web site and forum is to facilitate communication between butterfly recorders and those running recording schemes or gathering data for academic research. Butterfly Conservation (UK) offered to set up the site in response to requests from delegates from many European countries
at its International Symposium in 2002.
 

Global conservation projects

• Welcome to GreenScreen: The Global Habitat Project
• OUP USA: Butterfly Conservation
• Conservation Ecology: Butterfly Species Richness Patterns in Canada
• The Butterfly Conservancy
• InSCIght - 17 April 1998 : Blue Butterfly Needs No Habitat Highways
• Prize-Winning Work for Butterfly Conservation
• Butterfly Gardening and Conservation
• EU Urged To Curtail Trade In Threatened Butterflies... New
• Especes prioritaires (conservation status) New

European butterfly conservation

• Dutch Butterfly Conservation (De Vlinderstichting)
• Our Nature Reserves UK's most important Lepidoptera sites
• Butterfly Conservation (Hampshire & Isle Of Wight Branch)
• Butterflies and Moths in Kent
• Butterfly Conservation  
• Butterfly Conservation Herts and Middlesex Branch Homepage
• North East England Butterfly Conservation
• LOCAL SPECIES ACTION PLAN FOR THE BLACK HAIRSTREAK
• Boloria aquilonaris in France New 
• Suffolk Branch of Butterfly Conservation Home Page
• Butterfly Conservation's 3rd International Symposium. (Oxford Brookes University)
• LID Information - Butterfly Conservation, Dorset Branch
• Community Organisations in Cambridgeshire - Butterfly Conservation Cambridgesh
• PAPILIO: Ecological Surveys and Conservation Managements
• Gestion des milieux semi-naturels, restauration des populations menacees de papillon... New
• Guidelines for collectors

Not all butterfly species are endangered - yet :

• Butterfly photographs (European species)
• Butterflies & Moths by David Bell
• Butterflies of the USA
• European Butterfly checklist New
• IFBE International Federation of Butterfly Enthusiasts (USA)
• 'Common' butterflies heading for extinction
• WildLife photography in Siberia and Central Asia by Oleg Kosterin
• Butterflies of Moscow's suburbs. In Russian. New
• The butterflies in the suburbs of Tokyo by Kosei Tamiya

  Educational websites:
   

• Kids and Nature Videos by Roberts & Whyte
• Butterfly Magic: a little closer look at the wonders of nature by TerryLynch
• Schmetterling und Raupe New
• FLIGHT PERIODS OF SELECTED INVERTEBRATE ORDERS New
• Die Tagfalter Penzbergs New
• Children's Butterfly Site
• Butterflies by Paul Opler
• Kanawhagardenclub Educational site from WV with horticulture, conservation, butterfly gardening, propagation & flower arranging tips and links.
• Butterfly Gardening and Conservation

  Other useful sources of information:

• The Butterfly WebSite. The complete website for butterfly lovers...
• Mariposas del mundo MUSEUM BUTTERFLIES OF THE WORLD
• Planned Volumes REVISION OF THE GENUS PARIDES (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
• Electronic resources on Lepidoptera
• Browse the Lepidoptera taxonomy (includes photos)
• Butterfly forum at Nature.Net (New !!)
• Butterflies of Kerala, India. Butterflies are perhaps the most conspicuous and colourful of insects...
• Butterflies of Poland Database interactive database of the distribution of butterflies in Poland with dynamic UTM maps on-demand and identification of species, in Polish and English, Nicholas Copernicus University of Torun

  Butterflies by post:

• Worldwide Butterflies as source of many kinds of butterflies and moths by post... .Books for their study, equipment for breeding, and field study.

        Earth video:

• La belle verte (1996)