Independent: Much of Britain’s wildlife, from butterflies to puffins to bats, suffered severely at the hands of the weather in 2008, the National Trust says. A month-by-month diary compiled by wardens and conservationists on its hundreds of gardens, estates and properties in England and Wales shows that wild creatures were badly hit from the cold late spring and the sodden summer — the second in a row — although things picked up with the dry autumn. Insects in particular, and creatures that feed …