Play the Silk Moth Memory Game
It’s the year of the silk moth at National Moth Week, and to celebrate the interesting and beautiful members of this group, Encyclopedia Of Life created a new memory game. Click here to play!
NATIONAL MOTH WEEK WEBSITE SURPASSES 2 MILLION PAGE VISITS!
Not interested in moths yet? What are you waiting for? There is a worldwide tidal wave of interest in moths. In just three short years, the National Moth Week website has surpassed more than 2 million page visits! Check out the site. It is filled with information about moths, how to find them, where events …
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New NMW partner – The India Biodiversity Portal (IBP)
By Thomas Vattakaven The India Biodiversity Portal (IBP) was launched, to establish an open access biodiversity information platform for India to address the issue of biodiversity information not being openly available. The portal aims to establish a collaborative information system that will aggregate and ntegrate an array of biodiversity knowledge available with several entities in …
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“Come on Over to the Dark Side,” Moth-lover Urges Birders
Dr. John Pickering, NMW Science Advisory Board member, and Jim de Rivieres, NMW sponsor, are featured in the May/June 2014 Audubon magazine article about moths and mothing, written by Rene Ebersole. Click here to read the article.
Data Now Available from the Encyclopedia of Life (eol.org)
By Tracy Barbaro, Encyclopedia of Life TraitBank is a searchable, comprehensive, open digital repository for organism traits, measurements, interactions and other facts for all taxa across the tree of life. TraitBank is integrated into the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) and leverages its existing infrastructure for names, content organization and search. Data records are aggregated from …
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Moths Are All Ugly and Brown – NOT!
Participate in National Moth Week and Explore the Wonders of Moths! By Dave Moskowitz The Rosy Maple moth is either gaudy or stunning depending on your perspective. But with colors described as raspberry and lemon sherbet or a strange golden haired diva wearing bizarre velvet robes, it is unmistakable and isn’t easily overlooked. Dave Wagner …
Look for NMW in the 2015 Chase’s Calendar of Events
National Moth Week has been accepted for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Chase’s Calendar of Events, available in late September 2014. In responding to our initial inquiry, Editor-in-Chief Holly McGuire said NMW is “the kind of entry we want in Chase’s.” She also admitted to being “a big moth fan.” (We love that!) Published …
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Our Giant Silk Moths and Ancient Mythology
National Moth Week – “The Year of the Silk Moth” – What’s in a name? Participate in National Moth Week and Explore the Wonders of Moths! By Dave Moskowitz Our Giant Silk Moths and Ancient Mythology: Our Beautiful Giant Silk Moths and the Mythological Roots of Their Names This year, National Moth Week is spotlighting …
Guest post – Lauren Zarate, Mexico
I LOVE insects and enjoy photographing them for display on Project Noah. National (and International) Moth Week is a wonderful way to create attention for the magnificance and variability of one of the largest and least seen groups of the insects. Their beauty, breathtaking adaptive coloration and camouflage make them fascinating subjects and can scarcely …
Mid-summer Moth Madness – NMW 2013 in California, USA
Go Ahead, Bug Me creator, Becky Randall, sent this article about their Moth Week 2013 event in California, USA: Last year for National Moth Week, the Insect Sciences Museum of California and Facebook page Go ahead, BUG me co-hosted a mothing event which they called Mid-summer Moth Madness. Here is the poster they made to …
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