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Nature lovers urged to join hunt for rare miniscule moth in Scottish mountains (www.independent.co.uk)

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People are being urged to join the search for one of Scotland’s smallest species – a moth just a few millimetres long – to help save it from UK extinction.

The tiny Highland nymph, which is also nicknamed the Alpine coffee moth because of its cappuccino colours and its habitat in the mountains, is on the edge of extinction in Britain in the face of dwindling habitat.

The species, which is found in the Alps and Scandinavia and was only recorded in the UK for the first time in 1983, lives on two species of mountain willows, where its caterpillars eat the inside of leaves.

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