Butterflies
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British wildlife fans encouraged to help record the greatest influx of painted lady butterflies for 10 years
Wildlife enthusiasts in the UK are being encouraged to help record the greatest influx of painted lady butterflies for 10 years, part of the world's largest butterfly survey. People are urged to take part in the annual count of the
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Warm summer brings more butterflies to Britain
Butterfly numbers increased last summer but numbers are still below average according to a UK-wide study. Some 46 of the 56 species studied in the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme in 2013 saw numbers increase compared with the washout summer of
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Pictures: Butterflies bizarrely gather to drink turtles' tears
A stream of brightly-coloured butterflies was pictured smothering the heads of turtles as they bizarrely tried to drink their tears in the Peruvian Amazon. The strange phenomenon occurs because the orange Julia butterflies and yellow Sulphur
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