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In the UK, more than 85,000 citizen scientists took part in the “Big Butterfly Count” this year. Their alarming findings showed a marked and extremely concerning decline in butterfly numbers. Butterflies are an indicator species of a wider environmental problem in the UK. A call to ban neonicotinoid pesticides would be a step in the right direction.
Brimstone Butterfly-Gonepteryx rhamni