Butterflies
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Video: Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden
Learn the best ways to attract Butterflies to your garden and allotment. For more videos, visit the Kitchen Garden YouTube channel at the link below:
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Bee more friendly to pollinators!
In our latest KG Subs Club news, specially for subscribers, we look at bees, beaches, some smashing pumpkins, and lots more… Gove’s £60,000 boost for bees Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced a £60,000 fund for pollinators. This will be…
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Forest habitats for butterflies
With the dramatic difference in the weather compared to last summer, indications are that this has been a good year for butterflies In early August, Forestry Commission and Forest Holidays staff teamed up to support the nationwide Big Butterfly Count…
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Butterflies: who’s counting?
Launched in 2010, the Big Butterfly Count has become the world’s largest survey of butterflies Over 60,000 people took part in The Big Butterfly Count in 2017, submitting 62,500 counts of butterflies and day-flying moths from across the UK. This…
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Bad year for butterflies
Cold weather in April ensured a poor year for butterfly numbers Two declining butterflies suffered their worst year on record in 2017, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has found. It was hoped that butterflies would bounce back after a bad…
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Bonnie Scotland begins to bloom again…
Scotland’s Gardens Scheme shrugs off winter with the Scottish Snowdrop Festival, which launched last weekend and runs until March 11. Families, wildlife lovers, plantaholics and grow-your-own newbies are in for a treat during 2018 when more than 450 gardens will…
