The Jewel Box: How Moths Illuminate Nature's Hidden Rules
By Tim Blackburn
Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20
I belong to a group who obsessively log and report migrants. And we have a magazine, Atropos, with a skull in its logo.
But the death’s head is on the furry thorax of the Hawkmoth Acherontia atropos. And the mothing community is perhaps the only on-line group to celebrate both migrants and colonisation.
The ecologist Tim Blackburn highlights the ‘vital’ role played by migrants in the