Taxpayers have been left furious after the Welsh Labour government spent £250,000 on a project to count moths - while it cuts public services.
The 'Cryptic Creatures of the Creuddyn' project is surveying the moths' limestone habitats on Llandudno's Great Orme headland and in neighbouring areas.
It was handed a grant of £248,348 by the Government’s Nature Networks Fund, and will be delivered by the Heritage Fund.
The under-fire government claims it with help protect at-risk insects, including the Horehound Plume micro-moth.
A Tory councillor branded the spending 'ridiculous' - as families struggle with the cost of living and local authorities cut frontline services.
