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Statement on Collecting – The Lepidopterists’ Society

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Adopted by the Executive Council: 13 June 1996, Houston, Texas The Lepidopterists’ Society affirms that collecting Lepidoptera is one of many legitimate activities enabling professional and avocational lepidopterists to further the scientifically sound and progressive study of Lepidoptera and education about Lepidoptera as well as encouraging interaction between professional and avocational lepidopterists. The foregoing Statement …

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New Jersey Moths: Introducing National Moth Week

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Published on WILDNEWJERSEY at 11/7/2011 by Dave Moskowitz This is my first column for Wild New Jersey and I am very excited that I was asked to contribute. I hope to focus future columns on the incredible moths around us. With that theme in mind, I am very excited to introduce a new project that is underway …

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Opinion: Exploring a Little-Known Planet, By Edward O. Wilson

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Jim Harrison, photographer Harvard News Office From: The Scientist, October 1, 2011 One of the fundamental questions of biology is the amount and full nature of biodiversity on Earth. It should be worrisome to all that 250 years after Carl Linnaeus introduced the practice of binomial nomenclature and articulated the goal of identifying all species …

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Mothing in Alaska

Moth Photographers Group – Guide for data collecton

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Bob Patterson who developed and maintains the awesome Moth Photographers Group offers this guidance about data collection: We are beginning a mapping project at Moth Photographers Group. All data that we receive will be shared with BAMONA (Butterflies and Moths of North America) and any other mapping project that wants it. Participants should submit a …

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Jennifer’s new mercury vapor lamp setup

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This is my new mercury vapor lamp setup, or as I like to call it, my “non-trapping light trap.” Hopefully no bugs will be harmed in the taking of my photos this spring and summer. Jennifer Forman Orth (Massachusetts)

Fran’s set-up

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Here’s my little set up that I mainly use–pillowcase on a dowel, hung over a light fixture. In the fixture I’ve tried ordinary CFLs, “black light” CFL, and the black incandescent light bulb from Spencer’s. I sometimes move the cloth around to other fixtures that have incandescent bulbs. Of course the moths land on the …

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22 Oct. 2011 – Participating states

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As of of today seventeen states are registered as participants in NMW 2011. See map on the Location page.Alabama Connecticut Georgia Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey New York North Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington Wisconsin

More Mothing Setups

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Here is my setup in my backyard. The sheet is in the rear of the photo.I use a Bioquip 175W Mercury Vapor Light and a ballast I bought through an ad in the News of the Lepidopterist’s Society and run it off of an outlet by the deck. I have a typical 1\3 acre suburban …

More Light Setups

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Mercury Vapor Light on back of wood shed (pillow case instead of sheet for better photos on the wood surface). The fine pillow case came from Ocean State Job lot so it was the best $3.00 could buy… Fran, this is the back of my wood shed that is adjacent to my back patio. The …

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