You can be be living in a country for decades, and then one day you find out: a chunky moth that looks just like a wasp lives there too.

This stripy specimen was discovered in a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire this summer.

The six-belted clearwing, to use its proper name, can grow up to 2.5cm, has a bold yellow and black abdomen, and would probably put you off your picnic.

‘It does look a bit out of place in the UK,’ Ajay Tegala, a ranger at Wicken Fen, told Metro, after we said it looks more like something you’d see in the Amazon rainforest. He and others at the National Trust’s oldest reserve were especially excited by the discovery because it marked the ten thousandth species seen there.

Wicken Fen is the place with the most recorded species in the UK, and they’re not slowing down

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