Dutch garden butterfly count results

This video is called Red Admiral Butterfly – Butterflies in Cornwall.

On the 1-2 August weekend, there was the national garden butterfly count in the Netherlands.

In about 6,200 gardens, over 81,000 butterflies were counted.

The most frequent species was the red admiral.

Second was the peacock butterfly.

Third the small white.

There were almost 900 sightings of hummingbird hawkmoths; more than usually.

More butterfly count results are here.

Butterflies of Gelderse Poort nature reserve: here.

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