Country diary: even the dowdiest day-flying moths deserve a closer look

Langstone, Hampshire: Garden tigers and hummingbird hawkmoths are spectacular, but there are gems among the smaller species tooThere are significantly more species of day-flying moths in the UK than there are butterflies – over twice as many large “macro moths”, plus a number of smaller, harder to identify “micro” species – but they are often overlooked in favour of their more familiar cousins.It’s impossible to ignore the hummingbird hawkmoth darting ba