https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/ Sign up for this annual event. "Butterflies are key biodiversity indicators for scientists as they react very quickly to changes in their environment.  Therefore, if their numbers are falling, then nature is in trouble. So tracking numbers of butterflies is crucial in the fight to conserve our natural world.  That's whytaking part innthis massive citizen science enterprise is of great importance not just for our butterflies but for the wider environment and biodiversity in general." You can download a chart so you can work out which butterflies you have spotted.

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