Historic British Butterflies

"All butterflies are sourced from old historic collections or from bred stock"

  "Specimens are professionally sourced and NOT taken from the wild!!"
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My thoughts on Conservation & Sustainability

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I like to encourage captive breeding of butterflies to obtain a "series" of specimens and I am a keen supporter of breed and release.

All the collections I sell are with conservation and sustainability in mind.

In general here is how my butterfly breeding cycle works using my Peacock Butterflies for example... I last bred x50 larvae, Then kept only 20% and 80% got released!!

So out of 50 I successfully breed, I always aim to put 40 butterflies back into the wild keeping just 10 for setting (as I said it is all about sustainability).

Breeding in a controlled environment is usually more successful than letting butterflies breed in the wild, where they are open to predation.

All butterflies should only be released to the wild, in their natural breeding areas or areas previously colonised by that particular species of butterfly, all should be kept in accordance with the Natural England Guidelines www.naturalengland.org.uk

I encourage all collectors to use professionally sourced specimens, like breed & release.


Museum & Private Collection Visits

In order to research provenance of British Butterflies and Moths we visit all major museums and private collections in the UK.

We compare and study historical specimens and data then corroborate our findings.

Specimen by F W Frohawk, P G Martin Collection
Specimen Manchester Museum
Specimen Draw Manchester Museum
Darren Clarke recording Silver-spotted Skippers
Specimen Manchester Museum
Paul Martin and Dave Budworth at Oxford Museum
Specimens at Oxford Museum
Paul Martin Photographing Specimens at Oxford Museum
Darren Clark, Paul Martin and Terry Gosling Moth Recording Ryton Wood

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