Butterflywatch: red admirals reap benefits from woodland management

If we work together to create new sanctuaries or restore old habitat, the butterflies will have a fighting chance

It looks like an indifferent year for butterflies from where I'm standing although I've seen large numbers of possibly immigrant red admirals around the Norfolk coast.

We won't know the season we're having until we see data from the annual scientific survey and the Big Butterfly Count, which is now under way and will hopefully beat last year's incredible statistic: 111,628 citizen scientists took part.