Farmland butterflies benefited from the best summer weather for seven years, a survey has revealed.
The Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS), which assesses the fortunes of common and widespread species, found that many farmland butterflies flourished as a result of long periods of warm, sunny weather last summer.
Typical farmland species such as the Brimstone, Common Blue, Small Copper, Small Skipper, Large Skipper and Small Tortoiseshell all fared better in 2013 after experiencing a crash in numbers during 2012.
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