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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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