This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Saturday 13 July 2024
Missing in Action
This is more like 'Not Seeing the Changes. Locally (Crymlyn Burrows; Loughor and WWT Llanelli), it's been a dreadful year for Lepidoptera. Although generally recorded in these areas, I've not yet seen a single Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae); Small copper (Lycaena phlaeas); Peacock (Inachis io); Painted lady (Cynthia cardui); Marbled white (Melanargia galathea); Greyling (Hipparchia semele); Comma (Polygonia c-album) and Clouded yellow (Colias croceus). Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaea); Elephant hawk (Deilephila elpenor) and Six-spot burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) moths, have also failed to put in appearances yet. Even species actually seen, seem evident in tiny numbers. Vast swathes of Nettle; Ragwort and Rosebay willowherb have gone unnibbled.
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Tony Juniper (Guardian 13th July 2024) seems to have come to similar conclusions about UK butterflies. I doubt, however, that 'turning things around' is quite as easy as he suggests. Things can be done of help species survival (leaving flowers in place and reducing insecticide use) but the effects of 'climate change' are essentially 'locked in'. If carbon zero was achieved tomorrow (spoiler alert: it won't be), it will still be decades before global temperatures come down.
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