I carried out a butterfly survey at Lauriston Farm today. As regular readers might remember, this is the site of Edinburgh's Agro-ecology Project, which is rewilding parts of the fields and setting up community growing plots and planting orchard trees among other activities. The organisation is keen to know how wildlife is benefitting from the rewildling initiatives. The last couple of years haven't been great for butterflies, but this year I've seen more of many species, both on the farm and elsewhere. Though today I didn't see a lot of butterflies (the wind, though acceptable for a butterfly survey was possibly too strong for good numbers to turn up). I did see a Meadow Brown (though the photo below was taken a couple of years ago in Portobello Cemetery)
The latest post on my Crafty Green Substack went live this morning, follow the link to read it: A Better Year for Insects.
1 comment:
Pleasing to read that you have seen more of many species, both on the farm and elsewhere.
All the best Jan
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