Attack of the Euro-moths: should Britain’s farmers be afraid?
by Stephen Moss from Environment | The Guardian on (#1H90S)
Millions of diamondback moths have migrated from their eastern European breeding grounds to descend on English crops. But are they really a 'biblical plague'?
As if Brexit and football violence weren't enough to make us miserable about Europe, it seems that the UK is now experiencing an invasion of "Euro-moths". Tens of millions of small but potentially lethal diamondback moths are crossing the North Sea, come to devastate our cabbages and cauliflowers.
The first signs of the invasion came last Saturday night, when observers reported a two-mile long cloud of moths near the Herefordshire market town of Leominster. As one witness reported: "It was like driving through rain."
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