Nature Notes

[sinkov]

Last year our buddleia was in bloom but a butterfly was a rare sight indeed, they had just vanished. This year the buddleia is thriving again and so are the butterflies, it's absolutely thronged with them, a wonderful sight after last year. I'm sure there is an explanation for this welcome return of the butterflies, but I don't know what it is.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I've deliberately left an uncut wedge in the side garden that's full of wildflowers, it is swarming with butterflies and bees. My 4-year-old granddaughter loves standing and watching them going about their bizziness.

I put a small pond in a forgotten corner of the garden during the Covid lock-in, it's only a foot deep but we now have a colony of frogs strutting their stuff. Granddaughter loves that too!

[kritichris]

Last year our buddleia was in bloom but a butterfly was a rare sight indeed, they had just vanished. This year the buddleia is thriving again and so are the butterflies, it's absolutely thronged with them, a wonderful sight after last year. I'm sure there is an explanation for this welcome return of the butterflies, but I don't know what it is.

Global swarming?