June 27th – 29th, 2014: Burr Oak State Park in Athens and Morgan counties Everyone is familiar with colorful day-flying butterflies, but far fewer are tuned into the darker side of the Lepidopteran world: moths. Yet moth species outnumber butterflies by a factor of 22. Most moths fly under cover of darkness, and are harder …
Mothapalooza celebrates the fantastic diversity of Ohio’s moths Read More »
Project Noah is a citizen-science based website open to amateur nature lovers and scientists alike. One can submit data points, known as “spottings,” identified or unidentified. If your “spotting” is unidentified, members of the community will assist in helping with the identified. To contribute to citizen science, one can add their spottings to “missions” which …
Project Noah aims to document 1000 spottings of moths found during National Moth Week Read More »
By George Barnes, TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF gbarnes@telegram.com 7 comments | Add a comment Link to online article ATHOL — What goes bump in the night may not be half as interesting as what is buzzing around in the dark looking for a little light. Moths always go for the light, and that is what …
Moth hunters stalk night seeking winged wonder – telegram.com Read More »
We are happy to welcome Belen Mena as a member of the National Moth Week team. Belen has been an active supporte of NMW by promoting the project on her website and Facebook page and contributed designs for our website. Read more about Belen and her work: Belen Mena is the founder of a design …
There are so many things that make people unique; different cultures, races, religions careers, interests and personalities. But there’s one thing that unifies many people from across the globe. Unfortunately, it’s a negative. Most people fear or even hate insects, spiders and other arthropods. They do not hesitate to maim, spray or kill these animals …
NMW partner – The Bug Chicks: There’s no need to fear Read More »
This weekend Pleasant Village Community Garden (PVCG) will celebrate National Moth Week with music and moth “hunting”. *On Friday, 7/26, from 7:30 – 8:40 p.m. The Hunters with guest Gili Sharett, basoonist will play a set of honky tonk tunes. The suggested donation is $5.00 and there will be lots of cheap food, too. Moths …
We’ve just added a super helpful new feature to the pnwmoths site – a checklist generator! What’s a checklist generator, you say? You pick any combination of states/provinces and/or counties/regional districts and the website instantly generates a list of all the moths from our database in that region! Should be great for using during National …
Pacific Northwest Moth – new checklist generator Read More »
Why do we sponsor National Moth Week? We love nature. We love life. We wish for things to be always good, for positive relationships of all kinds, whether globally or at home, between people and with the environment, everywhere, always. Utopia. Not being naïve’, just wishing for good. Such a ubiquitous project as National Moth …
National Moth Week events are being held in twenty countries today. Here are highlights on just a few of them: In India, Mirnal is taking “A small team from Kolkata, will go to Darjeeling forest and Tea-garden areas to photograph the Moths. We will arrange the food and shelter there.”. Lauren in Mexico is planning …
There are twenty-four public mothing events in eight US states today. Check out the map to find an event near you. Victoria is hosting a public event in San Francisco, California: “This is an urban mothing site – it will be interesting to see what you get in the city vs in the wild. The …
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