In addition to your mothing set-ups, we’ll also be highlighting some public NMW events around the country. If you’re nearby, attend one! The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is hosting a NMW event on July 27 at their Prairie Ridge Ecostation (4301 Reedy Creek Road, Raleigh): You are invited to an evening of moth-centered …
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Like last year, we’ll be profiling some NMW events and light set-ups here on the blog. It’s interesting to get a look at some other mothing set-ups to see what others are doing to attract moths. First up, we’ll take a took at Carl Barrentine’s set up. If you remember, Dr. Barrentine is running a …
The NMW USA locations map is filling up! In the past few days we’ve gotten registrations from a few of our missing states. Now we’re down to just eight states without NMW events – Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming. Help us get the word out. You can also read about …
NMW’s newest partner is The Nature of Israel, a website run by Oz Rittner and dedicated to the fauna of Israel. Check them out!
As moth’ers, we know better than anybody that moths are attracted to lights. However, when this occurs unintentionally across large scales – such as in highly light-polluted cities, the effects can be detrimental to moth populations. Scientists at the university of Exeter in the UK have quantified declines in moth populations across the country. As …
NMW’s newest supporter is Teá Kesting-Handly. Teá runs a butterfly identification website and rearing blog highlighting the life cycles of some butterflies and moths. Teá has been studying butterflies and moths for about 6 years and has published a paper in Invertebrates Magazine on the genetics of Monarch butterflies. She’s been doing a moth research project with …
Work is continuing on the UK Moth Night www.mothnight.info, which this year takes place on 8-10 August with the theme of tiger moths. The event has been run annually by Atropos (the UK journal for butterfly, moth and dragonfly enthusiasts) since 1999, now in association with Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. …
Moths are often considered butterflies’ ugly cousins and few insects are generally portrayed as “cute”. That’s why it’s refreshing to see lists like this one from the website TheFW (despite the somewhat questionable grammar) featuring 17 “ridiculously cute” moths. The usual suspects populate the list – Io, Polyphemus, Rosy Maple – but it also includes …
Moths can seriously do everything these days – not only can they hear extremely high frequency sounds, now they can drive! Researchers at the University of Tokyo did an experiment to test the sensory and motor systems of silkmoths. They had the moths control small motorized vehicles to move in the direction of pheromones (chemicals …
This article ran last week on LiveScience – The Greater Wax moth, a common Pyralid found in North America, Europe and Asia, can hear sounds up to 300 kilohertz – the highest known sound frequency. This is about 100 khz higher than bats can hear and our human ears can hear sounds up to only 20 …
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