A BUTTERFLY conservation group is celebrating national moth night by inviting the public to Kinver to search the woodland for particular types of moths.

West Midlands Butterfly Conservation’s annual moth night aims to help conserve and monitor moth distribution in the county, with Kinver Edge being home to various species.

The group will meet at 9pm on Friday (June 10) at the main entrance to Kinver Common, near the old Warden’s Lodge.

Although recorders are encouraged to ‘do their own thing’, the main theme for this year’s moth night is Hawk-moths, with one of the world’s most spectacular moths – the Humming-bird Hawk-moth – attempting to colonise the UK due to climate change.

Richard Fox, Butterfly Conservation’s head of recording, said: “This year, moth night is focusing on hawk-moths, some of the largest, fastest and most glamorous moths found in the UK.

“From the bat-like privet hawk-moth with its 12cm wingspan to the spell-binding aerobatics of the humming-bird hawk-moth and the punk-pink of the small elephant hawk-moth, these moths have the wow factor.”

The group will be setting up various moth traps on and around Kinver Common, with event co-ordinator Dave Smith setting up his trap near the entrance.

Visitors are asked to bring a torch as the traps will be spread about.

For more information, or if you would like to attend, email Dave at dovehouse@blueyonder.co.uk.