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Volunteer hunting for one of UK's rarest moths finds it in his own garden (butterfly-conservation.org)

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A SEPTUAGENARIAN sleuth hunting for one of Britain's rarest moths was stunned to find it living in his own garden.

Retired doctor Jo Davis, 78, from Lanarkshire, walked for miles along the banks of the Clyde over the past year looking for the Currant Shoot Borer moth and the Red Currant bushes it feeds on.

He was astonished to realise the treasure he sought was under his nose the whole time when he spotted one of the tiny black-and-yellow insects on his own Red Currant bush.

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