Details for NMN 08 have recently been confirmed and are as follows. The date is Saturday 7th June
2008 and the event will include daytime recording as well as the usual nocturnal activities.
Targets are a bit different this time. There are two day-flying species including, for the first
time ever, a micro-moth, as well as a possibly extinct species and even a target habitat! We
hope that the targets offer plenty of scope for group/public moth events, as well as yielding
important data:

1. Anania funebris – a day-flying Pyralid moth, which is a new UK BAP priority species
   found in Britain and Ireland.
   
2. Bordered Gothic Heliophobus reticulata – a night-flying species that comes to light
   and sugar. It is a UK BAP priority species that was found formerly in southern
   England and Wales, particularly East Anglia and South East England. There are no
   known British colonies at present!
   
3. Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk-moth Hemaris tityus – a day-flying, UK BAP priority
   species, which is found mainly in western Britain and Ireland.
   
4. Orchards – a new NMN departure to have a target ‘habitat’. Traditional orchards are
   a new UK BAP priority habitat and very important for wildlife, but are generally underrecorded
   for moths.