Butterfly numbers – summer 2013
by Lewis, 15 November, 2013, 1 comments
This summer (2013) a record-breaking 46,000 people took part in the Big Butterfly Count – organized by Butterfly Conservation. More than 830,000 butterflies and day-flying moths were recorded across the U.K.
The previous wet and miserable summer (of 2012) has gone down as the worst year on record for butterflies; it followed a series of ‘indifferent’ summers weather-wise that had compounded the long-term decline of various butterflies.
The warm and often sunny conditions this summer saw a “butterfly boom”, with large numbers recorded in the the gardens, parks, playgrounds and countryside of the U.K.
Generally speaking, observers counted almost twice as many butterflies as compared to 2012. Read more...
