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Project Noah Fun Fact: Ilia Underwing

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! While adult underwing moths in the genus Catocala are masters of disguise, so are their larval counterparts. These caterpillars are a variety …

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Project Noah Fun Fact: Darling Underwing

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! Moths in the Catocala genus are unique for their themed names. Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist credited with being the “father of …

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Project Noah Fun Fact: Owlet moth

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 …

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Moths:  Why moths? Hong Kong; National Moth Week; Citizen Science; iNaturalist. By Roger Kendrick

I have been asked to write a few words on moths and NMW. So here, in a not too roundabout way, I’ll attempt to explain the significance of moths and National Moth Week . First up – moths. Why should anyone study moths at all…. ? An intrinsic answer would be “because they’re there, they …

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Project Noah National Moth Week 2015 Recap

  Project Noah celebrated National Moth Week in 2015 by promoting users to contribute to the official National Moth Week mission, Moths of the World. Users contributed spottings from all six continents Lepidoptera are found on. Project Noah users who submitted spottings to the Moths of the World mission during National Moth Week were awarded …

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Submit moth observations to NKIS – Guest post by Michael Kurz

Our non-profit organization aims in the documentation of organisms (Taxonomy, Ecology, Biogeography) on a global scale, as well as in the interactions between organisms (see http://www.nkis.info). NKIS.info also provides functionality for the documentation of biotopes, fossils, minerals and rocks and has a quality management system according to ISO 9001. National Moth Week is a great …

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French NMW Partner Shares Love of Hawk Moths With World

Écrit en Français en bas Jean Haxaire, a senior professor of Earth and Life Sciences at Bordeaux University and Agen (high school)  in France, loves hawk moths so much that he has created a new website dedicated to the Sphingidae moth family accessible in both his native French and in English. National Moth Week welcomes …

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