Hitchin Wildlife

  HITCHIN NATURE NETWORK – MOTH BREAKFAST 2022 In June Hitchin Nature Network held a Moth Breakfast and I wrote a related article ready for Inside Hitchin magazine as part of its Hidden Hitchin series of articles, very unfortunately this lovely little magazine has ceased publication and the article has never seen the light of day, so I thought I'd post this instead.  The theme of the piece was hidden creatures : those flying things which visit Hitchin’s gardens and wild spaces under the cloak of darkness: moths! We at Hitchin Nature Network understand that not everyone is the greatest fan of moths, but we are here to try and point out that they are really interesting, a marvellous part of our local wildlife and can look really cool! The breakfast was held at Mel & Dom's garden and Dom, who just happened to have a Willow Beauty land on his glasses, was obviously very happy to be a moth landing site.  The Willow Beauty is quite a large moth and many of the larger moths ar