The Islands had a phenomenal amount of painted lady butterflies appear with saturday being a day when numbers appeared to soar in the afternoon, numerous stopped at Les Ecrehous and fed on the thrift.
"In Tudor times, Richard Turpyn recorded "an innumerable swarme of whit buttarflyes ... so thicke as flakes of snowe" that they blotted out views of Calais. In modern Britain, swarms of butterflies may be a thing of the past but in the past few days at least, millions of painted lady butterflies have reached our shores after an epic migration from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa."
