A few Graylings from the limestone pavements on Whitbarrow, Cumbria.
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July 14, 2026 at 8:05 PM
A few Graylings from the limestone pavements on Whitbarrow, Cumbria.
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#Leptember day 24 glorious Graylings
My go-to location for Graylings is on top of a coal spoilt tip high in the Welsh valleys, so my photos are usually of Graylings sitting on coal spoil but this year the butterflies had dispersed more widely so I got some lovely photos of them on wildflowers.
My go-to location for Graylings is on top of a coal spoilt tip high in the Welsh valleys, so my photos are usually of Graylings sitting on coal spoil but this year the butterflies had dispersed more widely so I got some lovely photos of them on wildflowers.
September 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
#Leptember day 24 glorious Graylings
My go-to location for Graylings is on top of a coal spoilt tip high in the Welsh valleys, so my photos are usually of Graylings sitting on coal spoil but this year the butterflies had dispersed more widely so I got some lovely photos of them on wildflowers.
My go-to location for Graylings is on top of a coal spoilt tip high in the Welsh valleys, so my photos are usually of Graylings sitting on coal spoil but this year the butterflies had dispersed more widely so I got some lovely photos of them on wildflowers.
May not have survived the devastating fire 🔥 Along with many wildlife species scarce Silver-studded Blues & Graylings will be gone. Many years before they recover. Graylings will have to recolonise from areas already destroyed by Sizewell C @savebutterflies.bsky.social @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social
Male Gatekeeper clinging to a grass seed head on a windy day at Dunwich Heath Suffolk.
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July 30, 2026 at 3:17 PM
May not have survived the devastating fire 🔥 Along with many wildlife species scarce Silver-studded Blues & Graylings will be gone. Many years before they recover. Graylings will have to recolonise from areas already destroyed by Sizewell C @savebutterflies.bsky.social @sayno2sizewellc.bsky.social
Sixteen butterfly species seen today at Arnside Knott in Cumbria, including three Brown Hairstreak, scores of Painted Ladies, a couple of Graylings and a Clouded Yellow. #Savebutterflies
August 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Sixteen butterfly species seen today at Arnside Knott in Cumbria, including three Brown Hairstreak, scores of Painted Ladies, a couple of Graylings and a Clouded Yellow. #Savebutterflies
Hardly any butterflies around now - probably too hot. However large numbers of Striped Graylings on my local patch (Monte Coto). #butterfly #butterflyphotography #butterflies #insects
July 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Hardly any butterflies around now - probably too hot. However large numbers of Striped Graylings on my local patch (Monte Coto). #butterfly #butterflyphotography #butterflies #insects
someone wake these graylings up
October 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
someone wake these graylings up
I've a major soft spot for graylings of all kinds, and island endemic graylings are even more alluring! Spending some quality time with Madeiran Grayling this afternoon with my @mariposanature.bsky.social group was a joy from start to finish.
August 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I've a major soft spot for graylings of all kinds, and island endemic graylings are even more alluring! Spending some quality time with Madeiran Grayling this afternoon with my @mariposanature.bsky.social group was a joy from start to finish.
Two for Tuesday #Leptember
Eastern Rock Graylings (Hipparchia syriaca ssp. ghigii), showing some courtship behaviour in Greece 🇬🇷
Eastern Rock Graylings (Hipparchia syriaca ssp. ghigii), showing some courtship behaviour in Greece 🇬🇷
September 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Two for Tuesday #Leptember
Eastern Rock Graylings (Hipparchia syriaca ssp. ghigii), showing some courtship behaviour in Greece 🇬🇷
Eastern Rock Graylings (Hipparchia syriaca ssp. ghigii), showing some courtship behaviour in Greece 🇬🇷
In the heat of the Vercors, France, these Woodland/Rock Graylings (Hipparchia fagi/alcyone) are desperate for moisture. My sweat was apparently a real treat for them! @europebutterfly.bsky.social
June 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
In the heat of the Vercors, France, these Woodland/Rock Graylings (Hipparchia fagi/alcyone) are desperate for moisture. My sweat was apparently a real treat for them! @europebutterfly.bsky.social
One of a few Graylings at Arne RSPB yesterday.
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July 17, 2026 at 3:12 PM
One of a few Graylings at Arne RSPB yesterday.
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Graylings. Iridescent, eager. Around here they are a pleasant surprise
December 6, 2024 at 4:22 AM
Graylings. Iridescent, eager. Around here they are a pleasant surprise
Sadly that’s the effects of Graylings ‘improvements’ and years of Tory underfunding.
June 2, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Sadly that’s the effects of Graylings ‘improvements’ and years of Tory underfunding.
Graylings having an average year on the Studland transects, but the grasses they lay on next to bare ground are all brown now. Not sure what the young larvae will feed on before they hibernate. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Graylings having an average year on the Studland transects, but the grasses they lay on next to bare ground are all brown now. Not sure what the young larvae will feed on before they hibernate. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
When I started butterflying in the 1980s you could see hundreds or thousands of Graylings (heivlinder, H semele) on dry heathlands in August. It could be extremely abundant. But since then numbers went down and 2025 looks like a new low on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects.
August 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
When I started butterflying in the 1980s you could see hundreds or thousands of Graylings (heivlinder, H semele) on dry heathlands in August. It could be extremely abundant. But since then numbers went down and 2025 looks like a new low on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects.
Today's the graylings' adoptiversary. Shramps (and maybe also salmon) for everyone!
April 25, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Today's the graylings' adoptiversary. Shramps (and maybe also salmon) for everyone!
Graylings, Choughs and Wheatears along the coast path between Porth Chapel and Nanjizal this afternoon.
July 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Graylings, Choughs and Wheatears along the coast path between Porth Chapel and Nanjizal this afternoon.
Reminded of when a friend and I started measuring all government waste/scandals in "Graylings," equivalent to around £3bn the approximate cost of his various failings across his ministerial portfolio.
From now on, when discussing the budget, please use “is this measure bigger than the cost to the exchequer of gen Z drinking less” as your metric for assessing whether something actually raises or costs a significant sum
November 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Reminded of when a friend and I started measuring all government waste/scandals in "Graylings," equivalent to around £3bn the approximate cost of his various failings across his ministerial portfolio.
Can we have an act of compassion please? We will never be allowed to rejoin the EU.
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Can we have an act of compassion please? We will never be allowed to rejoin the EU.
#WildWebsWednesday with the incredibly well camouflaged grayling #butterfly on the #GreatOrme at the weekend. This is a grayling thyone, a subspecies smaller than other graylings due to its location. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #NorthWales
May 20, 2026 at 6:42 AM
#WildWebsWednesday with the incredibly well camouflaged grayling #butterfly on the #GreatOrme at the weekend. This is a grayling thyone, a subspecies smaller than other graylings due to its location. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #NorthWales
Hiding in plain sight... we'll be seeing a lot of graylings of various kinds during our time in the Montes Universales in Spain later this summer, including Striped Grayling, owner of the best jagged, disruptive #butterfly camouflage in the business. They can melt unseen into dry, stony terrain...
February 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Hiding in plain sight... we'll be seeing a lot of graylings of various kinds during our time in the Montes Universales in Spain later this summer, including Striped Grayling, owner of the best jagged, disruptive #butterfly camouflage in the business. They can melt unseen into dry, stony terrain...
Graylings at Coatham Marsh
Counted at least 10 and hundreds of Whites out on the sun today
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Counted at least 10 and hundreds of Whites out on the sun today
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July 9, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Graylings at Coatham Marsh
Counted at least 10 and hundreds of Whites out on the sun today
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Counted at least 10 and hundreds of Whites out on the sun today
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In a speech yesterday about the probation service, the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke sarcastically about the “glittering government career” of Lord Grayling, who was Conservative justice secretary from September 2012 to May 2015.
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Grayling’s glittering career
Justice secretary blames predecessor for probation’s lost decade
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February 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
In a speech yesterday about the probation service, the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke sarcastically about the “glittering government career” of Lord Grayling, who was Conservative justice secretary from September 2012 to May 2015.
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3+ clouded yellow, first adonis of the autumn, still plenty of graylings but in places chalkhills already fading. 2nd gen wall browns up over verne moat. painted lady still moving through in lower numbers. some exceptionally small common blues.
August 2, 2026 at 12:58 PM
3+ clouded yellow, first adonis of the autumn, still plenty of graylings but in places chalkhills already fading. 2nd gen wall browns up over verne moat. painted lady still moving through in lower numbers. some exceptionally small common blues.
One of my first Graylings of the year, Emperor moth caterpillar and view on a walk at Whitefield Moor in the New Forest this afternoon and Scalloped Oak moth at home this morning. #UKWildlife
July 20, 2024 at 7:16 PM
One of my first Graylings of the year, Emperor moth caterpillar and view on a walk at Whitefield Moor in the New Forest this afternoon and Scalloped Oak moth at home this morning. #UKWildlife
If there was one river that really deserved to be freed and restored, it is Kuusoja. Oja means 'ditch' in Finnish.
Oja is such an understatement about this glorious little river that still has decent water quality and even graylings!
Very good news. This alone made me happy today.
#RestoreNature
Oja is such an understatement about this glorious little river that still has decent water quality and even graylings!
Very good news. This alone made me happy today.
#RestoreNature
Positive news for the wee Kuusoja brook in Joensuu: the fishing rights holder wants to remove a fish migration obstacle and cancel the permit of an aquaculture farm.
There is a rare grayling population in the brook. It runs through drier forests. The area is nice for light hiking.
#RestoreNature
There is a rare grayling population in the brook. It runs through drier forests. The area is nice for light hiking.
#RestoreNature
September 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
If there was one river that really deserved to be freed and restored, it is Kuusoja. Oja means 'ditch' in Finnish.
Oja is such an understatement about this glorious little river that still has decent water quality and even graylings!
Very good news. This alone made me happy today.
#RestoreNature
Oja is such an understatement about this glorious little river that still has decent water quality and even graylings!
Very good news. This alone made me happy today.
#RestoreNature