Thriving lichen-loving moth is an exception to the rule | Letter
Mark R Shaw says airborne pollutants have caused a massive decline in insect numbers, in response to a Country Diary Nigel Brown’s understandable joy in finding a rosy footman in his moth trap (Country diary, 25 August) ends with “an important ecological message” that the substantial elimination of airborne sulphur dioxide pollution, which was devastating to the lichens and algae on which caterpillars of footman moths largely feed, has allowed recovery and even geographical spread.However, what might be a more realistic…
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