Winter Zoom Programme - 2025
We invite all our Butterfly Conservation members as well as members of the public to join us at our Branch Winter Zoom Presentations - all our branch presentations are free.
Additional Winter Zoom presentations are organised by Butterfly Conservation Surrey & SW London Branch - these do require advance booking
All meetings will start at 7.30pm and will last for no more than 90 minutes, including Q&A. If you already have Zoom installed, then simply click on the meeting link provided in order
to join. (Instructions on how to obtain Zoom are provided below the list of presentations.)
The programme of Brown Hairstreak egg survey/training mornings has ended
Last updated 06 February 2025
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Wednesday 8th JANUARY 2025
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'Colombia - home to 20% of the world's butterfly species' - Ian Small
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| Time: |
19:30 to 20:30 - please note the earlier time this year |
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Ian Small is our Membership Secretary and Newsletter Editor. His talk will be a ‘winter warmer’ - an antidote to a cold, dark, winter evening - which will showcase many bright and colourful butterflies from one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots.
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| Link to recording: |
YouTube link here |
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Tuesday 28th JANUARY 2024
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'The Butterflies of London' - Steve Bolton & Leslie Williams
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19:00 - 20:00 - please note this is earlier than the Branch talks |
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A review of butterfly population trends in London with reference to transect records and the new Butterflies of London atlas book.
Join Steve Bolton (Big City Butterflies) and Leslie Williams (London Natural History Society) for an online talk reviewing London's butterfly popultaion trends. Steve will share new analysis of long term butterfly transect records that reveal how butterflies are faring and provide some exmaples of sites where long term management and monitoring has benetfied these fascinating insects. Leslie will introduce the new Butterflies of London atlas book and share examples of some 'winners' and 'losers' in our capital city.
Big City Butterflies, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, is a project run by Butterfly Conservation that is inspiring Londoners to discover butterflies and moths, and connect them with nature and their local green spaces. |
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YouTube link here |
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Wednesday 5th FEBRUARY 2025
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'My Moth Journey' - Liz Goodyear
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| Time: |
19:30 to 20:30 - please note the earlier time this year |
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Liz Goodyear has been recording moths in her garden for over twenty years and has recorded nearly 700 species. Her talk will discuss her 'moth journey'!
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| Link to recording: |
YouTube link here |
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Wednesday 5th MARCH 2025
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2024: 'A Year of Surprises in Provence' - Roger Gibbons
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| Time: |
19:30 to 20:30 - please note the earlier time this year |
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Roger Gibbons is a member of the BC Herts and Middlesex committee and the committee of the European Butterflies Group (EBG), and spends the spring and summer in Provence and the French Alps.
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| Booking details: |
Zoom link here |
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Wednesday 26th MARCH 2025
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'What's happened since the book? - 10 years of change - Andrew Wood
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| Time: |
19:30 to 20:30 - please note the earlier time this year |
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Andrew Wood is the records collator for the branch, Hertfordshire Butterfly Recorder and author of our annual reports and "The Butterflies of Hertfordshire and Middlesex.
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| Booking details: |
Zoom link here |
New to Zoom?
If you have not used Zoom before, then it needs to be installed on your device prior to the
meeting, in order for the meeting link provided below to work. Zoom can be downloaded free
from https://zoom.us/support/download. Once it is installed, you can join a meeting simply
by clicking on the link provided for that meeting. If you require further details, then full
instructions on how to join the meetings are available on the Branch website at:
Joining Winter Zoom Presentations
Can’t make the date?
All our talks will be recorded and posted on the Herts & Middlesex Butterfly Conservation
YouTube channel within 2-3 days of the event. You can watch previous year’s talks and other
fascinating videos now. You can subscribe to the Channel for free to learn when new videos are
posted -
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