| Join the great British butterfly hunt! |
[Apr. 7th, 2009|11:58 pm] |
 Today we once more invite readers to join in the Great British Butterfly hunt , not least as a low-cost, all-summer cheering-up exercise in the current economic gloom.
Butterflies are free, remember, in more than one sense - free-flying, which is a great part of their charm, but these most beautiful of all the insects cost you nothing to gaze upon. We invite you to join our quest to see as many as possible, and the person or group sighting the most will win a special safari with the charity Butterfly Conservation, to find for the last and most elusive of all the British species, the brown hairstreak.
You can catch up with our own reports on the status of the species here. And read the latest developments on the campaign here.
To enter, briefly record your sightings as you make them - species, place and date seen, and your name below) . Record them also in your own butterfly diary, and send us this, with a short description of your hunt as a whole, by 12 noon on Monday August 17. (We will publish an address to send it to later, as the Independent is shortly moving.)
Share your butterfly sightings in the comments form below
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