{"id":722421,"date":"2026-08-01T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722421\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T08:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T08:02:08","slug":"excitement-over-butterfly-spotted-at-middlesbrough-nature-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/722421\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement over butterfly spotted at Middlesbrough nature site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A butterfly survey at a town&#8217;s nature site threw up an unexpected and exciting find, organisers have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Middlesbrough Environment City found 10 butterfly species at its 22 acre plot on the former Nature&#8217;s World site in Acklam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They included an Essex Skipper, a predominantly southern species rarely spotted as far north as Teesside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were very excited when we we saw it,&#8221; the charity&#8217;s project manager for environmental development Jodie Sawbridge said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Essex Skipper is similar to the Common Skipper and it was only by closely observing pictures taken by volunteer Jordan Protano-Byrne that they were able to confirm the sighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sawbridge said: &#8220;The only thing that tells it apart from the Small Skipper is that its antennae, right at the top of them, it looks like they&#8217;ve been dipped in black ink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Because it&#8217;s quite a small butterfly it was really really difficult to spot.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A butterfly survey at a town&#8217;s nature site threw up an unexpected and exciting find, organisers have said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-722421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}