BBC Wildlife Magazine

Feeling the heat

NSECTS ARE THE ‘CANARIES IN THE coalmine’ when it comes to climate change, because theydramatic range expansions, almost certainly helped by our changing climate. The marbled white, for example, was once regarded as primarily a species of southern downland, but is now found as far north as Yorkshire.

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