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Butterflies are attractive, colourful and they fly by day. These characteristics not only make them amongst the most widely known groups of insects, and certainly the most popular, but also very suitable for monitoring. There is widespread interest in the study and conservation of butterflies and so an abundance of potential recorders who can readily identify them.
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Pollard, E. (1991). Monitoring butterfly numbers. In: Goldsmith, B. (eds) Monitoring for Conservation and Ecology. Conservation Biology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3086-8_6
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