Butterfly Conservation News Release 27th July

[millerd]

An encouraging article about the positively changing fortunes of the Pearl-bordered Fritillary in Kent and East Sussex. However, am I alone in thinking they seem to have illustrated the article with the wrong butterfly? And the second photo shows two people scanning the trees at a height I have yet to see a PBF fly at...

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/a ... _more.html

Glad to be proved wrong...

Dave (picky, picky...)

[Padfield]

That certainly looks like SPBF to me!

I heard the same news on the Today Programme this morning. I was a little disappointed not to hear Sussex Kipper being interviewed, but it was encouraging nonetheless that this hit the headlines.

Guy

[Neil Hulme]

Hi Guy,
My fee was too high but I should be gracing the silver screen this autumn. I had about 5 mins of fame recently in an extensive Times Magazine article on butterflies, by the great Simon Barnes. I was particularly pleased with "We have a certain image of what a butterfly enthusiast should look like: a full-bearded Victorian with a butterfly net, or a Fotherington-Thomas type saying: "Hello, sky. Hello, sun." Hulme works on oil rigs. He is a micropalaeontologist. "I had 1,590 painted ladies in an hour", he says. Now this is going it a bit, even by the standards of oil-rig conversations, ...."

Yes, that's a SPBF alright - the shame of it! They might be watching PBFs going to roost in the trees Dave - but it looks too early in the day .
Neil

[Pete Eeles]

I was a little disappointed not to hear Sussex Kipper being interviewed.

I agree. I'd have a word with your agent, Kipper!

Cheers,

- Pete

[Neil Hulme]

And I've got the perfect face for radio

[lee3764]

That's a great success for BC & those who work hard at introductions & reintroductions!! Not an easy species for introductions are Pearl-Bordered Frits. Good work!
Lee (Cornwall).