I’ve been on Field Studies Courses on butterflies and moths.
Apparently, and I find this hard to believe, people weren’t too fussed about studying micro moths, the smaller ones.
I guess one could put a killing jar out and I’d or read the DNA of the fallen. But I’m guessing micro moths deserve more study. This was a while ago, and maybe the field guide had a thing about micro moths.
If we start losing the moths it'll be even harder to bring back from the brink than bees.
Like the proverbial starving migrant, unpopular animals are left to the wayside[0]; bees making honey and being well known plays to their advantage, but I'm 100% sure you could tell someone moths are going extinct and their response would be "finally, my closet was shrinking every year!"
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[ 1.2 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] threadApparently, and I find this hard to believe, people weren’t too fussed about studying micro moths, the smaller ones.
I guess one could put a killing jar out and I’d or read the DNA of the fallen. But I’m guessing micro moths deserve more study. This was a while ago, and maybe the field guide had a thing about micro moths.
Edit: Seems they’re properly appreciated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlepidoptera
Like the proverbial starving migrant, unpopular animals are left to the wayside[0]; bees making honey and being well known plays to their advantage, but I'm 100% sure you could tell someone moths are going extinct and their response would be "finally, my closet was shrinking every year!"
[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/are-ugly-anima...