The River Wye is being choked by a cocktail of ammonia, nitrogen & phosphate, seething in waters stripped of the shade of woodland, wetland & water crowfoot, a new study commissioned by
@WUFoundation
& carried out by
@cardiffuni
using eDNA finds. 🧵1/8
Two-tailed Pasha time! Around these parts (Greece) Aug-Sep is a good period for finding the second generation of these beauties.
It is surely the most exotic and non-European looking butterfly in Europe!
#Leptember