If you live in Brighton and Hove why not take part in the Big Biodiversity Butterfly Count, which takes place between Saturday 4 July and Sunday 12 July. To take part, you can pick up a butterfly identification guide and recording form at any library in Brighton & Hove, send us a stamped, self address envelope marked Big biodiversity Butterfly Count to Sussex Wildlife Trust or download your copy here BBBC survey form

Mark Monk-Terry/Sussex Wildlife Trust

How does Recording Butterflies Help?

Butterflies are very easy to identify in comparison to many other living things and are particularly sensitive to changes in their habitat. They are, in most of their characteristics, typical insects, and the impact of environmental changes on butterflies is probably similar to the effects on many other insect groups. Thus, they are broadly representative of 50% of all terrestrial biodiversity. So by counting butterfly numbers we have a measure by which we can easily monitor the rest of biodiversity.

Further information

www.sussex-butterflies.org.uk/BBBC

www.citywildlife.org.uk

Thumbnail image Alan Price/Gatehouse Studio/Sussex Wildlife Trust