Man found guilty of killing one of Britain’s rarest butterflies

A man has been found guilty of unlawfully collecting and killing specimens of one of Britain’s rarest butterflies, the large blue. Phillip Cullen, 57, was spotted armed with a child’s shrimping net chasing the insects at a nature reserve in Gloucestershire and was seen the next day at another prime location for the butterfly in Somerset.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/man-accused-of-killing-rare-butterflies-was-seen-with-net-at-reserve?source=Snapzu