Deb has been photographing moths since the first year of NMW. Here’s how her event turned out this year: “The location was Pittsburg, NH (only 25 miles from the Canadian border) near the Connecticut Lakes, the source of the Connecticut River. We were at a cabin surrounded by spruce-fir forest near wetlands and water. The …
Today we’ve got a guest post from Ken Childs: Once a year I like to try to photograph one of every moth species seen during one night of intensive mothing. Since it was National Moth Week and conditions were warm and humid on July 22, I decided that would be the night. July 22 is also …
Last year, Greta van Susteren criticized NMW on her blog and we call her out for it in our NMW presentations. This year, Ms. van Susteren has apologized to us! Here’s a link to a video apology from Greta. Greta, on behalf of the NMW team, we accept your apology and very much appreciate it! …
By: Sandra Lanman Just like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, when you go mothing, you never know what you’re going to get. Last Friday, we kicked off National Moth Week in East Brunswick, NJ, (where NMW started) and were greeted with a nice variety of winged friends – including a surprise “winged” guest – a …
We are very deeply saddened to report that Ken Philip, one of our National Moth Week Science Advisory Board members has passed away. Ken, 82, was the founder of the Alaska Lepidoptera Survey. He had been a member of the Lepidopterists’ Society since 1956, and was currently serving as a Member-at-Large of the Executive Council. The …
NMW is thrilled to announce our new partnership with LepiMap, the Atlas of African Lepidoptera. Megan Loftie-Eaton, LepiMAP Project Coordinator, gives us the following info on their project: LepiMAP is an awesome Citizen Science project run jointly by the Lepidopterists Society of Africa (LepSoc) and the Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town. LepiMAP is the …
We’ve added a mothing and NMW FAQ page to our site! Check it out under the Home tab just beneath the header. Also – we’d absolutely love to hear YOUR suggestions for more FAQ. Ask us by emailing info@nationalmothweek.org, by commenting on this blog post, tweeting at us (@moth_week) or posting on our Facebook page!
Dr. George Hamilton, of Rutgers University’s Department of Entomology in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences is NMW’s newest Science Advisory Board Member. Dr. Hamilton holds a Ph.D. in Entomology and is currently chair of Rutgers’ Department of Entomology. He is the NJ integrated pest management coordinator and has done research on using hymenopteran …
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This lovely long-form blog is courtesy of Eric C. Reuter. All photography is (c) to him. You can also check out his excellent bird photography here. It is a place that had never truly been explored for moths. If it had been, we surely would have heard about what lives in these woods. With …
Discovering Moths In The Southern NY Catskill Mountains – Eric C. Reuter Read More »
The Natural History Information System (www.nkis.info) is a citizen-science project that collects information on all kind of organisms worldwide. Registered users can submit data online to distribution, phenology, activity, biotopes, species interactions and many others, whereas anybody can analyze these data with the aid of standardized analysis tools (mainly maps and diagrams). Registered users also …
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