The Big Butterfly (and moth) Count, 2015.
by Lewis, 25 July, 2015, 2 comments
The big butterfly count is up and running for this year. It was launched in 2010 and has become one of the world's biggest survey of butterflies.
It is a nationwide survey and is aimed at assessing the ‘health” of our environment, and that of butterfly populations. Butterflies and moths are good indicators of biodiversity, and reflect changes in various environmental parameters.
In 2014, over 44,000 people took part; they counted some 560,000 individual butterflies and day-flying moths across the UK (view the 2014 results). Read more...
