Benefits of Wild Flower seed mixes.

In Stoke Goldington (North Bucks), the pre-school has a small patch of land behind the village hall about 15mx30m. This has been sown with a wild flower mix, and at the moment is awash with Red Campion. Emptying my moth catch here, well before dusk, I noticed about 50 (a conservative estimate) small, pale carpet-like moths flying ceaselessly around the flower heads. Managing to capture one in a hastily deployed painter's bucket, they turned out to be Sandy Carpet, my first encounter with this particular species, and nice to find in such numbers.