This butterfly needs a break
Challenged by climate change, our most secretive butterfly could soon be getting a helping hand if a new campaign takes offRecent very butterfly-unfriendly icy winds remind me of an insect that endures horrendous weather every summer. The mountain ringlet is our only montane butterfly, meaning that you have to climb a mountain – or at least 400 metres up a Lake District fell – to see it.Some mountain ringlet caterpillars may live for two years so slowly do they grow, chewing grass in
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