The gardeners amongst you will not welcome the sight of this moth in your vicinity, at least not if you grow any species of Box (Buxus) in your garden, as its larvae eat the leaves of Box and cover the plant in a webbing like thick cobweb. This is the appropriately named Box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis), a native of east Asia that established itself in Europe and hopped across the Channel to Britain in 2007. From the Aderyn biodiversity records database, the first Welsh sightings were recorded in 2016 and, in the seven years since then, a further 260 records have been added to the database, with most sightings along the coast of south Wales and a smattering across the top of north Wales.