UK radio on butterfly reserve

Neil Jones Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
Mon Apr 12 04:03:54 EDT 1999


The UK radio program "Spring Watch" Broadcast Monday 12th April 9.00pm
is covering a visit to the first Butterfly Conservation reserve in 
Wales at Caeau Ffos Fach (Pron. K-aye-aye Foss Vach with gutteral Ch like German)
The program covers the extraordinary abundance of the basking larval
webs of the Marsh Fritillary (Eurodryas aurinia) Around 270 were counted
in just one of the reserve's 5 fields.

The program is being broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

-- 
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.nwjones.demon.co.uk/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve


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