{"id":7494,"date":"2025-08-25T16:51:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:51:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:51:03","slug":"why-are-we-seeing-so-many-butterflies-in-ireland-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7494","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d8003d72e0d\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d8003d72e0d\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>7494"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7420\">Why the UK\u2019s butterflies are booming in 2025<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/brainstorm\/2025\/0821\/1529363-butterflies-ireland-2025-weather-conditions-population-growth-breeding-conditions\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Why are we seeing so many butterflies in Ireland this year?\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/08\/001ca5e5-1600.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/08\/001ca5e5-1600.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/08\/001ca5e5-1600-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/08\/001ca5e5-1600-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/08\/001ca5e5-1600-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/08\/001ca5e5-1600-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Why are we seeing so many butterflies in Ireland this year?<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Another reason for the 2025 butterfly boom is the weather in Europe. Hot, dry weather creates drought, and butterflies capable of migration escape by altitudinal and geographical migration. By moving north, Clouded Yellow, Large White, Small White, Red Admiral and Painted Lady butterflies can find succulent foodplants for their caterpillars.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Earlier: Why the UK\u2019s butterflies are booming in 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[32754,32755,32750,32753,28603,29422,29796,32749,22504,32751,29575,32748,32752,32757,32756,22390],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-castletown-house","tag-celbridge","tag-donegal","tag-drogheda","tag-ecology","tag-europe","tag-great-britain","tag-inishowen-head","tag-ireland","tag-kildare","tag-lepidopterology","tag-northern-ireland","tag-oldbridge","tag-tallaght","tag-tymon-north-park","tag-weather","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7496,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions\/7496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}