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THE JEWEL BOX - TIM BLACKBURN KARTONIERT (TB)

Every morning  ecologist Tim Blackburn is inspired by the diversity contained within the moth
trap he runs on the roof of his London flat. Beautiful  ineffably mysterious organisms  these
moths offer a glimpse into a larger order  one that extends beyond individual species  beyond
lepidoptera or insects  and into a hidden landscape. Footmen  whose populations are on the
march as their lichen food recovers from decades of industrial pollution. The Goat Moth  a
thumb-sized broken stick mimic  that takes several years to mature deep in the wood of tree
trunks. The Oak Eggar  with the look of a bemused Honey Monster  host to a large wasp that eats
its caterpillars alive from the inside. The Uncertain  whose similarity to other species has
motivated its English name. The Silver Y  with a weight measured in milligrams  but capable of
migrating across a continent. A moth trap is a magical contraption  conjuring these and
hundreds of other insect jewels out of the darkness. Just as iron filings arrange themselves to
articulate a magnetic field that would otherwise be invisible  Blackburn shows us that when we
pay proper attention to these tiny animals  their relationships with one another and their
connections to the wider web of life  a greater truth about the world gradually emerges. In THE
JEWEL BOX  he reflects on what he has learned in thirty years of work as a scientist studying
ecosystems  and demonstrates how the contents of one small box can illuminate the workings of
all nature.

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