Sunday, 29 December 2013

Countryfile Bumpkins

I was some what surprised, when watching the Countryfile programme on animal conservation winners and losers (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nh66t ) to see, in a section on the re-introduction of the Large blue butterfly to the Cotswolds to see a Large skipper (Ochlodes venatus) dismissed as a 'moth'. 

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