Soggy summers good for some

We've had a terrible year for butterflies. I've hardly seen any in the garden. The same goes for a lot of other beetles and crawlies we usually find on bug hunts.

Last weekend we and the children built a bug hotel. We're hoping the insects and butterflies will move in before the weather turns and have a nice snug place to spend the winter.

They'll be trying desperately get indoors soon to hibernate!

We've had loads of bees, despite the weather.

Don't know my butterflies well enough to actually identify many, but we seem to have had quite a few. Perhaps we've been lucky in our little patch.