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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