{"id":332174,"date":"2026-03-10T19:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332174\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:34:08","slug":"extinct-large-tortoiseshell-butterfly-spotted-across-southern-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/332174\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extinct&#8217; large tortoiseshell butterfly spotted across southern England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A butterfly officially classed as extinct in the UK has been seen at sites across southern England, says a conservation charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In recent weeks there have been a flurry of sightings of the large tortoiseshell in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset and Cornwall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has led Butterfly Conservation to declare the large tortoiseshell a resident breeding species in the country once again, as opposed to a migratory one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The species was once found across England and Wales, but was last recorded as a breeding species in the UK in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A butterfly officially classed as extinct in the UK has been seen at sites across southern England, says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-332174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}