Blog: Moths

Image: Tom Marshall

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Red tail queen photo Charlotte Rankin

Looking out for spring's pollinators

With daylight lasting longer each day, spring is well underway across Cumbria. This means that many of our early pollinators have emerged after a long winter.

Elephant hawk-moth caterpillar

Survival strategies of butterflies and moths

The blog explores the different methods moths and butterflies have for surviving the winter, from the eggs that wait till spring to hatch, to the adults that occasionally emerge on mild winter…

Image of argent and sable moth credit Martin Chadwick

In praise of moths

Chris Scaife gives us an overview of some of the wonderful moths found in Cumbria

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