{"id":765336,"date":"2026-09-09T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765336\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T19:10:10","slug":"silence-of-the-lambs-moth-found-in-portchester-school-compost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/765336\/","title":{"rendered":"Silence of the Lambs moth found in Portchester school compost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described how she first noticed it when she heard its distinctive mouse-like squeak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was so loud and so big, I thought &#8216;my goodness we&#8217;ve got another mouse&#8217;, but no, it was the beautiful moth,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It looks incredible with its marking like a bee on its underside and it has a very big face as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The moth is in a specialist habitat frame in the compost bin, and the school plans to show it to the children before it is released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We want the children to share in this &#8211; it&#8217;s a once-in-a-lifetime chance,&#8221; Moreton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ll understand its about looking after the wildlife they&#8217;ve brought in to their habitat.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She described how she first noticed it when she heard its distinctive mouse-like squeak. &#8220;It was so loud&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-765336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}