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Unhurried in flight and with a sideline in stolen goods, the handsome red kite is the gentleman thief of the raptor world

With a ‘butterfly emergency’ in the UK, conservationists are gearing up for this year’s Big Butterfly Count. But what has happened to these insects? And can they – on a wing and a prayer – ever bounce back?

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Rob Denson selects five patterns that match a hundred different bugs