{"id":15505,"date":"2025-07-22T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:14:08","slug":"magical-butterfly-sightings-across-the-uk-this-summer-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/15505\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Magical\u2019: butterfly sightings across the UK this summer | Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI live in the countryside and it\u2019s been an incredible year for butterflies \u2013 we\u2019ve seen marbled whites, tortoiseshells (pictured), red admirals and ringlets. I always think of an entry in The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady where she says she turned a corner into a lane and walked into a cloud of meadow browns. It makes me sad that this almost never happens these days, though this year, walking past butterfly-friendly plants, there have been small clouds of gatekeepers and meadow browns and it\u2019s magical.\u201d Charlotte Eichler, 43, poet, Leeds West Yorkshire<\/p>\n<p class=\"gallery__credit\" itemprop=\"author\">Photograph: Charlotte Eichler\/Guardian Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI live in the countryside and it\u2019s been an incredible year for butterflies \u2013 we\u2019ve seen marbled whites,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[10280,1397,5133,90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":{"0":"post-15505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-butterflies","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-insects","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}