Extinct Brighton Wainscot Moth

Send in your questions for this moth this week to dearmercury@substack.com

Happy Monday Everyone. This week the answers we seek will come from an extinct moth which came to me in a meditation several weeks ago. (I had never seen a moth like this before until I saw it meditation and had to google around to realize it did in fact exist). butterfly-conservation.org has this to say about these kinds of moths: “The Brighton Wainscot is a straw-coloured moth with two distinctive pale broad stripes. It was first seen in Britain near Brighton in the late 19th century, which gives it its common name. During most of the 20th century, it appeared to be thriving and was widely recorded across southern England but has since rapidly declined.”

Artificial light makes things increasingly difficult for moths to navigate which is why I think we can learn a great deal from them. I look forward to your questions!