I'M COMING OUT: EMERGING BUTTERFLIES AND BUMBLEBEES Catch pollinators searching for nectar on sunny February days, fresh from their winter slumber.WITH SPRING ON THE VERGE OF sticking its head above the wintry parapet, naturalists often adopt different signposts to herald the season’s arrival according to their own specialist interests. Birdwatchers, for example, will be listening out for their first chiffchaff, while botanists will be scouring the hedgebanks for early flowering violets. Those witha penchant for invertebrates, however, will only acknowledge spring to have officially sprung once they’ve spotted the season’s first butterflies and bumblebees on the wing -having freshly emerged from their winter slumber.
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