2019 Butterfly Transect Review

After the long, hot summer of 2018 you could be forgiven for wondering how our summer butterflies would have coped with the long period of drought. A parched landscape would not bode well for the larvae of grassland butterflies; or so you would think. The results of the 2019 butterfly transect season show that not

My First Blog Post

If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies…. Hi. My name is Richard and I am the County Butterfly Recorder for Leicestershire and Rutland. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more information on the butterflies, moths and other little gems