A WILDLIFE charity is asking for the public to help track one of Scotland’s most distinctive spring butterflies – the Orange- tip.
This year is the 20th anniversary of the first nationwide survey of this species and Butterfly Conservation Scotland is marking this by asking anybody who sees one of these iconic butterflies to let them know by visiting www.butterfly-conservation.org/scottishorangetip
The Orange-tip is one of the few butterfly species that has been increasing in numbers over recent years, bucking the trend found in the 2015 ‘State of UK Butterflies’ report, that almost three quarters of UK species had declined in the past 40 years.