3 British Moths Extinct; Most Other Species in Decline

[caption id="attachment_2484" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Orange upperwing (Jodia croceago) (C) A. Spalding"] [/caption]Three moth species have disappeared from the U.K. in the past decade and two thirds of the species that remain have suffered dramatic population crashes according to new research from the organizations Butterfly Conservation and Rothamsted Research. The news is published in the new report "The State of Britain's Larger Moths 2013" ( pdf ), which covers the roughly 900 "macro moths" out of the 2,500 moth species recorded in Great Britain. [More]