Marcie and Mike O’Connor, moth’ers from Wisconsin (USA), experimented with a new scheme this year, for their moth party. One of the problems people always have – especially folks who have never looked at moths before – is that moths are hard to appreciate by just looking at them with your eyes. The colors are often subtle, …
NMW participant Marcie O’Connor wrote about her event, or Moth Party, on her blog ‘Prairie Haven‘. The party included hiking, food and of course moths… There was no moth cake this year, but Anne promised to make one for next year’s Moth Party. To read more about Prairie Haven’s Moth Party – click here. ————————————————————————————————– …
Guest post by Anne Geraghty I was counting down the days to my first chance to attend the Annual Moth Party at Marcie and Mike O’Connor’s Prairie Haven in Buffalo County, WI. Marcie is absolutely brilliant at everything she does, whether it’s painstakingly restoring a sprawling farmstead to its original prairie/savannah habitat, meticulously cataloging the …
Marcie O’Connor, an avid moth’er and one of National Moth Week’s first supporters invited some friend for a moth party to celebrate Moth Week on her farm in Western Wisconsin. Marcie wrote about it in her blog: A Prairie Haven. 2014 Moth Party – July 19, 2014 by: Marcie O’Connor We had a great party, …
Marcie O’Connor set up her moth lights during a recent Grinnell College Reunion. Read the blog story about this ‘moth night’ on Marcie’s blog – “A Prairie Haven”.
Marcie O’Connor is a moth’er in western Wisconsin. Marcie lives on an old farm that she and her husband are trying to “unfarm” and bring back the prairies and savannas that were here before it was farmed. On her website/blog ‘A Prairie Haven‘, Marcie writes about life on the farm and about mothing Attracting Moths …
by Chris Goforth July will be here before you know it and with it comes one of my favorite citizen science celebrations: National Moth Week! Now in its third year, National Moth Week encourages people to learn more about moths and appreciate their role in our world by making observations and participating in citizen science …
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Marcie O’Connor often writes about moths on her blog – A Prairie Haven. Marcie was one of the very first participants to register a NMW event. In a recent blog post she said:”I normally put up my lights to attract moths a few times a week, but I do it by myself. This time I …
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“If there’s one thing moths like, it’s a cheap beer. “The sweeter and stinkier the better,” said Andy Matz, a senior insect science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A belt of Pabst Blue Ribbon or Colt 45 mixed into a paste of fermented fruit is borderline irresistible to just about any of the estimated …
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