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Meet Abdou Zakou, Country Coordinator for Niger
National Moth Week welcomes Abdou Zakou as the country coordinator for the West Africa nation of the Republic of the Niger. He writes this about himself: “I hold a degree in Forestry Techniques from the Faculty of Agronomy of Abdou
Meet Dr. Moira FitzPatrick, Country Coordinator for Zimbabwe
Dr. Moira FitzPatrick is an arachnologist and director at Natural History Museum in the Southern Africa country of Zimbabwe, where she has been collecting and researching spiders for many years. She tells us about herself: “During the Covid-19 lockdowns
Meet Tony Benn, Country Coordinator for Botswana
Tony Benn, new country coordinator for Botswana, a landlocked country in Soutern Africa, tells us about himself: “I love observing and taking pics of the moths that come to lights around my house in central Botswana. “I’m now a retiree,
Meet Shawan Chowdhury, Bangladesh Country Coordinator for National Moth Week
Shawan Chowdhury recently completed his PhD from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland (UQ), Australia, and is now working there as a research assistant. As a part of his doctoral research, Shawan worked on “insect migration and conservation”
Comment créer un projet sur iNaturalist
KAKPO Sunday Berlioz, Benin https://nationalmothweek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/adding-country-iNat-project.mp4
National Moth Week Welcomes 10 New Country Coordinators
From Bangladesh to Zimbabwe, ten scientists and educators in a variety of fields including ecology, entomology and conservation, have joined National Moth Week in 2022 as country coordinators, bringing the total to 34, including our first USA student coordinator. Country
Meet Julian Ibarra: Putting National Moth Week ‘on the map!’
If you’ve recently checked out the events map for National Moth Week 2022, you’ll notice it’s clearer and easier to navigate and find events in your state or country. The improvements are the work of our new GIS mapping specialist,
Meet Yahel Ben-Zvi: National Moth Week’s First USA Student Coordinator
Meet Yahel Ben-Zvi: National Moth Week’s First USA Student Coordinator
National Moth Week welcomes Yahel Ben-Zvi as its first USA student coordinator. In this newly created position on the NMW team, Yahel will be cultivating interest in NMW among college and university students across the country.
Yahel, 22, graduated in 2021 from the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences with a double major in entomology and plant science. He just completed his first year in the school’s Ph.D. program in entomology. His research focuses on how landscape changes and domestication of agricultural crops have affected the attraction of beneficial insects, such as pollinators and predators/parasitoids to the plant’s volatile compounds. This summer, he is doing fieldwork in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens.
As a child growing up in East Brunswick, Yahel attended events held by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission, which established National Moth Week in 2012 under the leadership of David Moskowitz and Liti Haramaty.
“I’ve been to several mothing events since black-light trapping is a very popular method of collecting insects,” he said. “When Liti Haramaty approached me about working with NMW, I thought ‘Oh wow, that’s pretty cool.’ I didn’t know it was so global.”
Yahel says his role in National Moth Week is “very connected to what I do.”
“As a student in the USA studying entomology, I have been in contact with people from the Entomology Society of America in order to spread the word about NMW among students of other universities.”
He notes that the society’s meetings are the biggest entomology events for students across the country, and he hopes to leverage his connections in his new role with NMW.
Moth Monitoring Programme for Schools: National Moth Week in India
Moth Monitoring Programme for Schools: We are happy to announce first of its kind programme for schools. Moth Monitoring Programme for Schools is a subset of National Moth Week which is global citizen science that happens every July. Unlike all
Carrying on the Message
By Marnie Crowell We live on the eastern edge of the time zone, on an island on the coast of Maine where our lobstermen routinely start their working day well before dawn. When the first National Moth Week came along
Home of the First ‘Moth Ball’ Still Flying
“Moth Balls” are popular, cleverly named gatherings around the U.S. to watch moths, socialize and eat during National Moth Week. The first one may have been celebrated at the home of Dave and Shelley Small in Athol, Massachusetts, USA. where
India Leads Participation in National Moth Week’s 10th Year
Guest post by Pritha Dey, Country Coordinator for India National Moth Week ended July 25 with over 1000 registrations from India!! In the 10th year of this global initiative, National Moth Week saw unprecedented participation from the different corners of
First Impressions: A (Moth) Night to Remember
Guest blog by Dhruv Rungta I stepped out of Dad’s car and spritzed myself with bug spray. While I was fascinated by insects, I was definitely not a bug person. Not yet, at least. I was simply at the National
Cairns Botanic Gardens in Australia Hosts 65 for Moth Night
By Dave Rentz, Australia Country Coordinator The annual Moth Night was held on an unusually warm and humid night on July 14. The event waspreceded by a Sausage Sizzle. Approximately 65 people attended, most of whom weremembers of the Friends
Project Noah 2021 NMW Patch
Share a moth photo into Project Noah’s Moths of the World Mission to earn the special once-a-year 2021 Moth Patch. Users can share any moth photo taken over the last year into this mission. Be sure to select “Moths of
Welcome Dr. Stefan Pinkert as Country Coordinator for Germany
Biologist and worldwide biodiversity researcher Dr. Stefan Pinkert has joined National Moth Week as the country coordinator for Germany.Stefan has done biodiversity assessment in a long list of countries including China, the Philippines, Ethiopia, as well as the Cape Verdes,
Help with identifying moths of the Eastern United States
Guest blog by Ken Childs, NMW team member I’ve been mothing in western Tennessee for 15 years and during that time, I’ve amassed thousands of photos of the species that can be found here. The best of these are posted
Thank you to all the translators of the NMW fliers
Thank you to all our voluntary translators! We are thrilled to have voluntary support in translating the National Moth Week 2021 flyers into different languages. We have flyers in 21 languages uploaded on our website now. This year we are
What’s the fuss about citizen science?
Listen to Dr. Roger Kendrick explaining what is citizen science, and how everyone can join and help collect data to help scientists document our natural world. To register to participate in National Moth Week click here
Meet Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang , Country Coordinator for Thailand
Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang holds a Ph.D. in law from the University of Bristol in the U.K. and teaches law in Bangkok, but he devotes his free time to his passion for the natural world. “So, moths and birds are my hobby,