This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Joined Underwing Moth (Catocala junctura) was taken by Carla Kishinami in September 2014. 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 …
Meet an Underwing – Catocala junctura (Joined underwing) Read More »
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Red Underwing (Catocala nupta) was taken by Dave Curtis in Langham, England, United Kingdom in August 2014. 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. …
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Citizen Science is not a new concept, although it was not until the late 20th Century that the concept really became popular and hugely successful. As early as the mid 1700’s Carl Linnaeus (who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature) would send his students and friends out to distant …
National Moth Week Flickr Group – Your contribution is needed, and valued Read More »
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 …
French NMW Partner Shares Love of Hawk Moths With World Read More »
The National Moth Week team is delighted to welcome its newest member, Ian Morton of Belize, an avid supporter of citizen science and NMW participant, who created the moths-of-belize.com website. As a team member, Ian is serving as an administrator of NMW’s Flickr page, which recently has tripled its membership and number of photos on …
Happy New Year to all moth’ers! National Moth Week 2016 will be held during the last full week of July, 23 – 31. Registration is open online – click here to register your Private or Public mothing event. (It may take a few days for your event to show on the map). Let us know …
Spooky Seasons event at Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is an annual kid’s hands-on program that invites families to spend some time exploring the things that some people find scary: bats, owls, nocturnal animals and learn more about them so their fears are lessened. Through theme tables participants might become a bat and flap their “wings” …
NMW participant Marcie O’Connor wrote about her event, or Moth Party, on her blog ‘Prairie Haven‘. The party included hiking, food and of course moths… There was no moth cake this year, but Anne promised to make one for next year’s Moth Party. To read more about Prairie Haven’s Moth Party – click here. ————————————————————————————————– …
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