Another epic fail by the team.
Experts are particularly concerned about honeybees, which will not forage in the cold and could run out of food.
But some of the country’s invertebrate population, such as snails and slugs, are likely to benefit from the deluge.
According to the Met Office, April 2012 was the wettest on record since 1910; the UK received an average 126.5mm of rain.
Butterfly Conservation’s Richard Fox said that this was “flying season” for some of our rarest butterflies and that it had been “clobbered by awful weather”.
“Spring specialists”, normally seen flying in April, such as the common blue and brown argus, only emerged in early May.
Two years ago, the experts told us that humans were making springs come earlier.
Earlier springs could destroy delicate balance of UK wildlife, study shows
Global warming could be changing seasonal timing with profound consequences, according to analysis of 726 species of plants and animals
The Guardian, Monday 8 February 2010
Now you see it, now you don’t. CO2 has amazing powers that can never be predicted, other than that if you include the magic words ‘global warming’ in your application, it will be approved and money will flow and flow.
No it’s the water vapor. Antropogenic CO2 is everywhere like a poison; when a plume of water vapor – which used to be just harmless water in the peaceful harmonious past, when man and beast lived in harmony – comes along, antropogenic CO2 will turn the water vapor into an IR-radiating monster, destroying cities and forests with its heat beams.
Later research found that the UK “Bugs against snow” were moving South for the annual bug ball.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHdKEhFM7mY