The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden Rules

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The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature’s Hidden RulesEvery morning, ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth trap he runs on his roof. Beautiful and ineffably mysterious, these moths offer a glimpse into a larger order, one that extends beyond individual species and into a hidden landscape. Footmen, whose populations are on the march as their lichen food recovers from decades of industrial pollution. The Goat Moth, a thumb sized broken stick mimic, that takes

red deer beneath towering oaks

locomotion and behaviour

Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk

Winner of the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing

Resonates beyond words - Guardian

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From that first spark

Ireland and Wales

and bees are brought vividly to life in language that is both original and deeply moving

elemental waters of the Isle of Skye

Reeling and grasping for answers

privilege and centuries of enclosure