Britons to vote in inaugural contest to find nation’s favourite butterfly
The Guardian World ·
Will it be the rapidly disappearing former garden favourite, the small tortoiseshell? Or the poet John Masefield’s “oakwood haunting thing” , the charismatic purple emperor? …
Will it be the rapidly disappearing former garden favourite, the small tortoiseshell? Or the poet John Masefield’s “oakwood haunting thing” , the charismatic purple emperor? Or perhaps the brimstone, the ultimate harbinger of spring ? The question of which is Britain’s favourite butterfly is being put to a popular vote for the first time. …
Original source: The Guardian World