Audubon Butterflies and Insects apps – on sale during NMW
In celebration of National Moth Week, Audubon Butterflies app and Insects and Spider app, are on sale on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and Amazon for just $0.99 cents until July 29th.
July 26, 2012
NMW update
National Moth Week has become the largest Global Citizen Science project focusing on moths. There are events and moth nights across the United States and the world. There are nearly 300 registered locations in as diverse places as the middle of New York City to the Australian Outback to the most remote jungles of Kenya, The Gambia, Costa …
NMW Fell House event CANCELED
Due to the threat of severe thunderstorms, tonight’s Fell House Moth Night in Allendale, NJ, has been postponed. It has been re-scheduled for Thursday, August 2, at 8:30 p.m.
NMW article on SRIN
Bruce Fellman’s article about NMW: “There’s been an explosion of interest, particularly in the last couple of months,” said David Moskowitz, the New Jersey-based biologist who, along with New Jersey oceanographer Liti Haramaty, got this project rolling. “We have more than 200 events scheduled. Every state except, so far, [North Dakota], will have either a …
NMW on Rutgers Today
“Moths sure get a bad rap; we associate them mostly as the pests that put holes in our stored clothing. In fact, few moth species are pests. They are a more diverse species [sic] than butterflies and are ecologically very important, serving as food for birds and bats, and sometimes serving as pollinators.” Read more… …
NMW Duke Farms event CANCELED tonight
Due to the threat of severe thunderstorms, tonight’s Duke Farms Moth Night has been canceled. We have re-scheduled for Thursday, August 2.
Henry David Thoreau’s Moth Night, 26-July-1852
This website highlights the journals of Henry David Thoreau. It seems Thoreau was having his own moth night on this very date in 1852! “Wings large and splendid …Thoreau’s Journal: 26-July-1852 Went to Cambridge and Boston to-day. Dr. Harris says that my great moth is the Attacus luna; may be regarded as one of several emperor …
An Awesome Moth Night at the Meadowlands, NJ
The Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society would like to thank all the folks who turned out last night for our first annual Moth Night. We stopped counting around 100 or so. Read more