In the meantime, Butterfly Conservation reports that it has been a slow spring for many of Britain's other 2,500 or so moth species.
Much of the State's water infrastructure and operation were developed to capture the slow spring runoff from snowpack and deliver it during the drier summer and fall months.
Bay has also had a slow spring.
Unfortunately, we are still recovering from a slow spring, and I need the second guy only because the first one is tapped out.
I noticed early on that the orchard would crop moderately (as opposed to well); I put this down to the slow spring and accompanying lack of pollinators.
The difference, too, is that this warm spell has felt like a just reward, a kind influence after a harsh winter and what has been, so far, a cold, slow spring.
I was chatting to a farming friend (a very good farmer as it happens) who had a bad year of beans and put it down to the slow spring and lack of pollinators.
But I wonder now whether the silly December we had, with daffodils all over the place and everyone in short sleeves, followed by the later cold snap, followed by the interminably slow spring, may have dealt a seriously deleterious blow to Britain's overall insect population.
