Red Admiral Butterflies Appearing In Britain Three Months Early - Mirror

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RED Admirals are fluttering around three months early - and experts reckon it is the latest sign of global warming. The butterflies usually migrate here in spring from North Africa and southern Europe.

Stragglers who try to hibernate in Britain are normally killed off by the cold. But in the past couple of days they have been spotted in gardens in Hampshire, Bristol and Herefordshire.

Temperatures so far this month have been almost double the average. Another unseasonal visitor spotted in Devon was a stick insect - also normally killed off by winter.

Tom Brereton, of the Butterfly Conservation Trust in Lulworth, Dorset, said: "The Red Admiral hardly ever survives spending the winter here because of the frost.

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