This morning's Today programme on Radio 4 included an interview with Dr. Marc Botham from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology about the 'comeback of rare butterflies'.
The interview is available online here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b01g65gl
starting at 2:47:40.
I'm off to look for some Drizzled Skippers.
Paul
Radio 4 Today programme.
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...along with maybe a Green Hailstreak, a Cloudy Yellow and a Speckled Flood!Pawpawsaurus wrote:I'm off to look for some Drizzled Skippers.
This must be the wettest drought ever.
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October 1976 was the wettest drought I can remember...
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Drizzled Skipper - very good
Here's a link to the BBC story, presumably with details and quotes from the show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17769868
Lee
Here's a link to the BBC story, presumably with details and quotes from the show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17769868
Lee
To butterfly meadows, chalk downlands and leafy glades; to summers eternal.
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'Fraid I'm not taking any credit or blame for that one; it was unintentional humour from the lips of an ignorant interviewer.Lee Hurrell wrote:Drizzled Skipper - very good
But I may as well mention Orainge Tip, Grimstone, Greyling and Lack-of-rained White.
Paul