Like a Moth to a Lamp

You might not think a quaint little rural place like Scampston would have much by way of night-life, but there you would be wrong.

Friday 12^th August saw us gathering in the dusk for an evening of moth hunting. Julian Small from Natural England set up his moth trap in the garden and as darkness fell the moths and insects came in to the light. 

The public who attended were very hands on and were happy to use our magnifying bug containers to catch the different species and examine them by torchlight. Several rare species of moths and insects were examined.

It was a truly enlightening evening!

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