The 20-year search for a vanishing custard-and-chocolate coloured moth

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Who published it, and when

How it spread - 6 original reports, 1 reprint

1. Sat, 15 August 2026

   1 report
   • aol.co.uk06:00
     The 20-year search for a vanishing custard-and-chocolate coloured moth

     Yorkshire common was thought to be the only known site of dark bordered beauty moths in England – until now

2. Wed, 26 August 2026

   1 report
   • Times of India20:02
     England's rare moth rediscovered after 70 years, found in 10 minutes after restoration

     Conservationists have triumphantly rediscovered a rare moth population that had been missing for seventy years at the National Trust's Wallington Estate in Northumberland. Thanks to extensive habitat restoration efforts, this elusive species, once threatened by extinction in England, has made a hopeful return, inspiring optimism for uncovering other hidden insect populations.

3. Sat, 5 September 2026

   1 report
   • spacedaily.com06:00first to report
     One of England's rarest moths had not been recorded on a Northumberland estate since 1952, and the conservationist who had been hunting a second English colony since 2004 found his first moth there about ten minutes after he arrived, in habitat that did not look like what the team expected

     Until July the species had one known English site, a 570-hectare common used as a military training area near York, where the Ministry of Defence's 2024 release recorded that "as little as 50 to 100" were believed to remain. The second site is real and dated. How long the moths have been on it is an inference, and the announcement gives no count of the Wallington colony.

4. Mon, 7 September 2026

   1 report
   • theguardian.com10:49
     Glowworms shine again in North Yorkshire after larvae reared in garden shed

     Volunteer ‘glow-getters’ overseeing reintroduction of endangered beetles at Nosterfield nature reserve

     1 reprint

     • aol.co.uk7 Sept, 10:49their copy
5. Wed, 16 September 2026

   1 report
   • indiatimes.com07:19
     In 1983, Britain reintroduced a butterfly declared extinct just four years earlier; the large blue has since surged 1,866% and now survives at 33 sites

     A butterfly once declared extinct in Britain is now at the centre of one of the country’s most striking conservation success stories. The large blue, which disappeared from Britain in 1979, has been successfully reintroduced and now occurs at 33 sites in south-west England.

6. Wed, 30 September 2026

   1 report
   • The Guardian World04:00
     Tern turnaround: colonies in England show signs of recovery after decline

     National Trust says latest figures encouraging – with numbers of birds on the rise – but work still to be done England’s most important tern colonies are showing signs of recovery after being hit by years of bird flu, flooding and increasingly unpredictable weather, new figures from the National Trust reveal. The trust reported record numbers of little terns at Long Nanny in Northumberland , one of the UK’s most important breeding sites for what is the country’s second-rarest breeding seabird....