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 …
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
Jean-Pierre Lebel is an Ottawa street artist who uses the sidewalks of Ottawa’s Byward Market as his canvas. The piece was commissioned by Ottawa moth photographer Jim des Rivieres (www.moths.ca) to kick off National Moth Week. Photo taken: July 22, 2012 5:30pm Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada …
Giant Luna Moth painting in Ottawa’s Byward Market Read More »
With so many NMW events, your camera’s memory card is probably full with great images from moth night[s]. Here is what we suggest you do: Moths images – Submit to one one of NMW’s partners. For many moth species distributional information is lacking or poorly documented. National Moth Week observations and collections can fill in …
Entomologist Moni Hayne sent us a link to a local newspaper article announcing their Moth Week event at the Jefferson County Conservation center in Iowa: Jefferson County Conservation is working with local entomologist Moni Hayne to spotlight the biodiversity of moths during National Moth Week Monday through July 29. Read more
As part of National Moth Week, we are having our first-ever Moth Night at at DeKorte Park on Wednesday, beginning at 8:30 p.m. We’ll have a short talk by David Moskowitz, a co-founder of National Moth Week, who is bringing two awesome light set-ups to attract moths from all around. Says Dave: “We will set up …
Moth Night at DeKorte Park, Bergen county, NJ (July 25) Read More »
Celebrate National Moth Week and explore the natural wonder of moths at two events sponsored by Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. At 7 p.m. July 24, an educational presentation will be given at Orr Street Studios in Columbia. Led by local entomologist and photographer Donna Brunet, the presentation will include many of her moth photos. …
Mary Liz Jameson sent us a NMW update from Kansas: It will be a moth frenzy tonight in Kansas! The Wichita State University Field Ecology class will be mothing tonight. We have various traps for moths, and several folks who will be imaging. We will be submitting our data to DiscoverLife. It’s been HOT and …
The Dustin family in Maine are having a festive moth dinner party with their friends. We are looking forward to photos of moths and people celebrating NMW. Here is the invitation they sent: You and your family are invited to a moth dinner party. Do not be afraid-we will not be eating moths. The menu …
Have you camera ready for Moth Week events! You can submit moth observations to any of our partner organizations . Discover Life, BAMONA and Project Noah introduce a special category for NMW, see below. More information on these and other partners is available on the ‘submitting data’ page [here]. We would also like to see …
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