As the UK’s climate changes, animals are having to adapt to survive. Some of them are better at it than others.
Butterflies
According to a 2010 report from the Inter-agency Climate Change Forum, as temperatures have increased, the habitats of the comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album, above) and Essex skipper (Thymelicus lineola) have moved northwards. The British comma has already moved 220km northwards from central England to Edinburgh in just two decades, according to a study published in the journal Science.
We've also lost some populations of more northerly species such as the mountain ringlet (Erebia epiphron), and Brown argus butterflies (Aricia agestis, below) are also threatened.
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