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WHERE to see butterflies in Britain
 
Please read the following Code of Practice before visiting any butterfly site.
 

Intense visitor pressure at the more popular sites causes disturbance to nesting birds and other wildlife. Spread the load by visiting these sites mid-week if possible. Better still visit lesser known sites. They can be equally rewarding, and you often have the place to yourself, with just the birds and butterflies for company.

Explore local sites. Take advantage of encounters with landowners. Most welcome conservation input from local people. Concentrating on local sites gives you more time to explore the habitat, reduces your fuel expenses, and minimises your carbon footprint.

Photographers should be aware of the unwitting damage they can cause by trampling foodplants, disturbing nesting birds, or scaring nervous wildlife. Keep to paths or trails as much as possible. Leaving paths encourages others to do the same thing, and can result in considerable damage to fragile foodplants and rare wild flowers.

Before visiting private sites always obtain the landowner's permission. On sites with public access, keep to existing paths and tracks. Abide by any requests to stay out of particular areas. Alienating landowners or site managers is harmful to conservation.

Consider other countryside users, who want to enjoy the peace and tranquility, and have just as much right to be there as you do. If anyone asks what you are doing, be an ambassador for butterfly conservation - encourage them to take an interest in butterflies, and tell them about www.learnaboutbutterflies.com, so that they can find out more.

 
 
The Butterfly Diary pages on this website are updated at least once a week, and tell you which species are flying at any particular time.
learnaboutbutterflies does not publicise sites of scarce or localised species. There is clear evidence that the instant availability of such information on certain other websites has caused particular sites to receive sudden influxes of visitors during peak flight periods. This has resulted in several fragile sites being damaged by trampling of larval foodplants, with dire consequences for the populations of rare butterflies.
We encourage people to use the extensive information published in the individual species accounts to help them learn about the type of habitat favoured by particular species, and to use that knowledge to locate and visit sites within their local area where possible.

 
 
 
 
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