Local people are being urged to help create ’recycled moths’ for a mass-participation art installation aimed at highlighting the climate emergency ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in November.

Totnes Renewable Energy Society (TRESOC) is hosting two creative moth events in conjunction with Art and Energy Collective’s ’Moth to a Flame’ project.Using moths as a metaphor for the human relationship with energy, the project invites people to think about their own hopes for the future and to record their message to the COP26 delegates who are meeting in Glasgow. Twenty thousand moths made by people from the South West will be travelling to the Scottish city for the climate emergency mass-participation art installation at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens, before returning to be exhibited in Plymouth.TRESOC holding a series of family moth-making sessions, using old plastic milk bottles, at Totnes Civic Hall today at 10am, 11am, 12noon, 2pm and 3pm. Participants can also record a message for COP26 delegates.Then on Tuesday August 17, TRESOC is hosting a moth watching session at Totnes Weir Hydro plant at 8.30am which includes a talk from a local moth expert, a tour of the plant, and the chance to make observational drawings of moths using handmade oak gall ink, and record a message for COP26.Those wishing to take part in either or both events must pre-register by emailing [email protected] will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis.