Butterfly Scoping Tool

This tool is not a substitute for the advice of a competent ecologist, it has been designed to nudge, supplement and support decision making. All outputs should be fact checked. The following sources of information are recommended, and were adapted for this tool:

• Britain's Butterflies: A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland – Fully Revised and Updated Fourth Edition (2020) by David Newland, Robert Still, Andy Swash and David Tomlinson. Published by WILDGuides.

• A revised Red List of British butterflies (2022) by Richard Fox, Emily B. Dennis, Andrew F. Brown and Jon Curson. Published by the Royal Entomological Society. Detailed information available here.