Big Butterfly Count 17th July to 9th August

The early Spring meant the earliest average emergence of butterflies in the last 20 years. . Please spend just 15 minutes on a sunny day (don’t choose boiling hot at midday weather) to count butterflies in your garden or on your daily exercise route so that Butterfly Conservation can understand how the changing weather patterns affects populations.

speckled wood butterfly

You can download an app to identify and count butterflies on the move, or scribble in a notebook to enter the data later at the butterfly count website