Monarch Butterfly - Danaus plexippus

With climate change this lovely American butterfly may be finding the stormy spring weather a major problem as it migrates thousands of miles across te ocean to Europe. Reduction in forest cover is a major threat to the survival of the monarch butterfly, whose numbers have plumetted in recent years.

Only very occasionally are specimens reported from southern Britain, but they are more commonly seen in the Scillies and the Chanel Isles. The fine specimen shown above was photographed in an old almond grove in southern Portugal.

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