![]() Q: The book is obviously heavily inspired by your moth trap, but that's not all you focus on, and it's packed with stories and anecdotes. and through a lot of Europe, we also have natural box woodland and forests, and the moths are really hitting those very hard - killing a lot of trees. It was introduced from East Asia and it chews people's box hedges down. The box-tree moth is a classic alien species that we have in the U.K. There can be big problems when we introduce a species from one part of the world to somewhere that it has no evolutionary history of association with. There are so many alien moths in the environment - species from Asia, Australia, New Zealand and southern Europe - all occurring together in London, because people have moved them there by accident. I was constantly surprised by things I was catching that I had no idea were there. ![]() As an ecologist with plenty of experience in the field, have you learned anything surprising in five years of moth trapping?īlackburn: Every day is a school day. Q: You've been running the moth trap on your roof terrace for quite some time now. (Image credit: Jacob J Everitt via Shutterstock) The larvae of tree-lichen beauty moths ( Cryphia algae) feed on lichen growing on tree trunks. There were literally three records of this moth before 1990 in the U.K., and I had a dozen of them on my roof terrace that first morning. ![]() It's a really beautiful little moth that until about 30 years ago was really rare in the U.K. It has a jade cloak, its thorax is often quite bright green, and the wings have this lovely mottled, lichen-like green camouflage. When you opened your trap for the first time, was there a moth that particularly struck you?īlackburn: One that really sticks in the memory is a thing called a tree-lichen beauty, which is about the size of my thumbnail. Q: It must have been magical to discover that there is such a diversity and abundance of moths in central London - many people wouldn't expect that. The last five years, I've been obsessively running a moth trap wherever and whenever I can. I started to run a moth trap in London - and again, it conjured up all these incredible creatures out of nowhere. I was just so completely blown away that first morning when I went out to see what that moth trap had conjured out of thin air. Moths are attracted to the light and fall into the box. It's basically just a box with a light on the top. Simultaneously, I started to run an undergraduate field course to a place in Scotland where they had a moth trap. I got into moths partly because I was a bit nature-deprived and didn't really have time to go off looking for birds. My mother says before I could talk I would sit in the pram pointing at birds as they flew past. Ever since I was little, I've been into birds. Vanish from view with this amazing Harry Potter toy and collector item.Blackburn: It was a bit of an accident, really. ![]() Save your invisible scenes! Save photo’s or video to your smartphone or tablet’s camera roll for instant recall.Invisibility cloak costume perfectly replicate the original cloak’s magical effects! Imagine being invisible? Imagine no more! This official Warner Bros.Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak Deluxe Version features: With prices from just $4, you can easily cross off some holiday shopping long before Black Friday rolls around. You’ll find even more toy deals in today’s Amazon Gold Box from NERF, Hasbro, and VTech. Rated 4+ stars by over 50% of Amazon reviewers. Plus you can sort your friends into any of the Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff houses, even if they contest their placement. You can bring the entire Harry Potter experience together with this officially licensed product that stands 20-inches tall and wonderfully recreates the iconic sorting hat scene from the movies. Leverage your savings and complete the ensemble with a Harry Potter Sorting Hat for $18.
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