I was sitting in my garden with a bowl of ice cream in near-total darkness not long ago. It was just after 10pm, not late by any standards except those of a new parent. My two-year-old daughter was ...

Standardized monitoring has revealed that the total number of moths has declined steadily by one third over the last 50 years (1968–2017). Pictured are two of the 2,500 moth species found in the UK ...