DeSmogBlog
Published on DeSmogBlog (http://desmogblog.com)

Home > Forget the birds and the bees. It's the butterflies, Stupid!

Fri, 2007-05-04 13:32Ross Gelbspan
Ross Gelbspan's picture

Forget the birds and the bees. It's the butterflies, Stupid!

Britain's hottest April on record has meant butterflies are hatching up to two months early [1]. The charity Butterfly Conservation said butterflies had been emerging an average of half a day earlier each year from the mid-Seventies until last year.

But a manager for the charity, said: "This year has blown all that away. We have had lots of species coming out two weeks earlier than last year, some a month or two months early. It's really a very dramatic situation."

Tags: 
UK [2]
global warming [3]
climate change [4]
butterflies [5]
britain [6]
hottest april on record [7]
Read more: Forget the birds and the bees. It's the butterflies, Stupid! [8]

Source URL: http://desmogblog.com/forget-the-birds-and-the-bees-its-the-butterflies-stupid

Links:
[1] http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2511435.ece
[2] http://desmogblog.com/tags/uk
[3] http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/913
[4] http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/939
[5] http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/1404
[6] http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/1405
[7] http://desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/1406
[8] http://desmogblog.com/forget-the-birds-and-the-bees-its-the-butterflies-stupid