Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild

Numbers of Rare Butterfly Eggs are Best on Record After Hedges are Allowed to Grow Wild

Brown Hairstreak (Thecla betulae) – by Iain H Leach / Butterfly Conservation Numbers of rare butterfly eggs have skyrocketed in South Wales after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Volunteers for the UK nonprofit Butterfly Conservation have counted record tallies of Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter around the Welsh county of Carmarthenshire. The success, they … Read more