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Highland spots see boom in numbers of UK’s smallest butterfly amidst conservationists’ delight (www.inverness-courier.co.uk)

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A wildlife conservation charity has celebrated an “explosion” in numbers of one of Scotland’s fastest-declining butterflies, with surprisingly high counts in various Highland locations.

More than 500 small blues were counted in just an hour and a half by a volunteer for national charity Butterfly Conservation at the Balnagown Estate near Invergordon, while other volunteers have discovered two new colonies of the species — one south of Wick and one at Nairn Railway Station.

Another volunteer recorded a small blue on 30 April — only the second time Small Blue has been recorded in April in Scotland.

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