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The Guardian view on moth-watching pleasure: the pest and the beauty | Editorial
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<blockquote data-quote="The Guardian RSS" data-source="post: 7453131" data-attributes="member: 78390"><p><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><strong>The Guardian view on moth-watching pleasure: the pest and the beauty | Editorial</strong></p><p></p><p>Written by Editorial</p><p></p><p>These insects have declined by a third over 50 years. While their appetites can be a nuisance, ultimately we must protect these gloriously beautiful, elusive creatures </p><p></p><p>“Night opens; night traversed by wandering moths; night hiding lovers roaming to adventure.” So runs a rapturous passage in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, a novel she had originally considered titling The Moths. The insects are a recurring theme in the book – moths dashing themselves against windows, moths darting between candles on a summer’s night. In her essay The Death of the Moth, she describes an insect trapped in her window: “Watching him, it seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body.”</p><p></p><p>Woolf’s identification of this little invertebrate with a vital but fragile life force takes on great poignancy with the charity Butterfly Conservation’s publication of its report <a href="https://butterfly-conservation.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/StateofMothsReport2021.pdf" target="_blank">The State of Larger British Moths</a>. The study, the first comprehensive account of the insects produced by the organisation since 2013, makes for sobering reading. Over the past 50 years, moth abundance has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/03/britain-moths-decline-by-third-50-years-study" target="_blank">declined by a third</a> in Britain. This stark change is attributable, say the researchers, to agricultural practices, habitat loss, light pollution and, above all, global heating.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/07/the-guardian-view-on-moth-watching-pleasure-the-pest-and-the-beauty" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p><p></p><p><strong>Since you’re here …</strong></p><p></p><p>… we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too.</p><p></p><p>If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank"><img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Guardian RSS, post: 7453131, member: 78390"] [img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/G+logo+long.png[/img] [b]The Guardian view on moth-watching pleasure: the pest and the beauty | Editorial[/b] Written by Editorial These insects have declined by a third over 50 years. While their appetites can be a nuisance, ultimately we must protect these gloriously beautiful, elusive creatures “Night opens; night traversed by wandering moths; night hiding lovers roaming to adventure.” So runs a rapturous passage in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, a novel she had originally considered titling The Moths. The insects are a recurring theme in the book – moths dashing themselves against windows, moths darting between candles on a summer’s night. In her essay The Death of the Moth, she describes an insect trapped in her window: “Watching him, it seemed as if a fibre, very thin but pure, of the enormous energy of the world had been thrust into his frail and diminutive body.” Woolf’s identification of this little invertebrate with a vital but fragile life force takes on great poignancy with the charity Butterfly Conservation’s publication of its report [URL='https://butterfly-conservation.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/StateofMothsReport2021.pdf']The State of Larger British Moths[/URL]. The study, the first comprehensive account of the insects produced by the organisation since 2013, makes for sobering reading. Over the past 50 years, moth abundance has [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/03/britain-moths-decline-by-third-50-years-study']declined by a third[/URL] in Britain. This stark change is attributable, say the researchers, to agricultural practices, habitat loss, light pollution and, above all, global heating. [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/07/the-guardian-view-on-moth-watching-pleasure-the-pest-and-the-beauty']Continue reading...[/URL] [b]Since you’re here …[/b] … we have a small favour to ask. More people are reading the Guardian than ever but advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. And unlike many news organisations, we haven’t put up a paywall – we want to keep our journalism as open as we can. So you can see why we need to ask for your help. The Guardian’s independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our perspective matters – because it might well be your perspective, too. If everyone who reads our reporting, who likes it, helps fund it, our future would be much more secure. Support the Guardian – it only takes a minute. Thank you. [url="https://support.theguardian.com/uk"][img]https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.thefarmingforum.co.uk/images/SupportGuardian.png[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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