More than half of the ... cool summer. But Dr Fox noted that climate change meant unusual weather was becoming more frequent. "When we have poor weather, these already-depleted butterfly ...

Species including the small tortoiseshell suffered their worst year ever, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme ... to the wet spring and relatively cool summer which did not provide good conditions ...

suffered its worst summer in the history of the Big Butterfly Count. Butterfly Conservation is now urging the UK government to declare a national nature emergency and is calling for an outright ...