With the advent of some warm sunny weather at last, butterflies have started to appear, albeit in small numbers. I have begun to see butterflies in the garden now with Large and small whites appearing along with green-veined white, red admiral, peacock, speckled wood and holly blue. In the cemetery I have seen 1 large and 2 small white, 4 speckled woods and 3 gatekeepers. It's nice to be seeing them but worrying that early there were virtually none and now only small numbers. This is partly due to habitat and larval food plant loss and this year, particularly, climate change which has brought a very wet winter and spring with the weather only recently beginning to improve.
Gatekeeper, cemetery.
Gatekeeper, cemetery.
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