For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about the underwing moths, Catocala, and their look-alikes. From Project Noah: Fun Fact! The underwings are moths in the genus Catocala (family Erebidae). They are known for having camouflaged forewings and boldly colored hindwings, that …
Gil Wizen is an entomologist, wildlife photographer and blogger based in Canada, focusing on natural history, taxonomy, and behavior of several arthropod groups. When all that people talk about right now is going outdoors with their smartphones and tablets to play the current-trendy Pokémon Go, an augmented reality game of hunting fictional creatures, it seems …
(Inter-)National Moth Week, Guest post by Gil Wizen Read More »
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. Dr. Utsugi Jinbo, NMW Japan coordinator and Science Advisory Board member, shared a webpage of Catocalas found in Japan. Click here to see more. More Catocala posted by Japanese moth’ers here and here. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr …
Moth watching beginners are invited to a Moth and Muffin event at our house on a Maine island next to a nature preserve during Moth Week, July 25. From 5 AM to 8 AM we will be serving blueberry muffins and pointing out the moths clinging to our sheets before we cover them with a …
What Kind of Beginner Are You? – Guest post by Marnie Crowell Read More »
Roger Kendrick is a NMW Science Advisory Board member and Hong Kong coordinator. Roger is Founder of Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium, co-founder, life member & founding chairman of Hong Kong Lepidopterists’ Society, life member of Butterfly Conservation in the UK, Hong Kong. In time for National Moth Week 2016, Roger added to his busy schedule managing the …
Roger Kendrick is now managing National Moth Week iNaturalist project Read More »
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of Catocala relicta was Collected by Ed Bruggink at White Lake, Ontario on August 15, 2003 and photographed by Jim des Rivières. This is one of the images that will be on display at the the G2 Gallery photography exhibit – Moths at LArge by Jim des Rivières. The …
Meet an Underwing – Catocala relicta (White Underwing) Read More »
By NMW team member Ian Morton If you’re anything like me, you might have thought that a night or two of moth-ing on your back porch in the last week of July doesn’t really count as a National Moth Week Event. Thankfully, that’s a load of twaddle! The truth is that there are only two …
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. NMW participant Teá Kesting-Handly sent us photos and information on Catocala gracilis: Catocala love to feed on bait, uncommonly, they can also be found on flowers! Here is a photo of Catocala gracilis feeding on the flower of Asclepias syriaca. A second photo shows this same moth on …
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of Catocala palaeogama was taken by Ken Childs in Henderson, TN, USA. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. Anyone can participate. Register a public or …
Meet an Underwing – Catocala palaeogama (Oldwife Underwing) Read More »
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of Catocala epione was taken by Ken Childs in Henderson, TN, USA. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. Anyone can participate. Register a public or …
Meet an Underwing – Catocala epione (Epione Underwing) Read More »
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