Here’s an article published in New Scientist earlier this year demonstrating a non-ecological moth function. US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in conjunction with some entomologists are working to develop an insect-machine interface by inserting electrode probes into insect brains and flight muscles. The insect they’re using? Manduca sexta – the tobacco hornworm, a moth …
NMW partner Dave Small hosted a series of events in the Athol, MA area ranging from use of mothing equipment, how to ID moths, watching and photographing moths and even a moth campout! Here is a gallery of pictures from Dave’s events (all photos are by Dave Small except where noted):
David Wagner – one of our sponsors and the author of Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History – recently published a journal article on moth decline in the Northeastern United States in News of the Lepidopterists’ Society. This paper joins several out of the UK (Thomas 2005; Conrad et al …
Here is a guest post from Linda LaPan: Our first ever Lake Placid, NY, Essex Co., Intervale Lowlands Farm moth event was a great success, 7/27/12. Dale F. Schweitzer came and stayed w/Larry Master, who owns the farm. He was wonderful with people and we had a blast and learned so much from him. Roughly 30 people, 8-10 kids. …
Bill Parker from Sequim Bay State Park, WA sent me a link to an awesome moth song by Sam Johnson on YouTube: The Moth Song I’ve transcribed the lyrics below: Saturniids are huge they’re as big as your hat, Elastichiids are tiny as an anorexic gnat – and micropterigiids are smaller than that. What are we …
“If there’s one thing moths like, it’s a cheap beer. “The sweeter and stinkier the better,” said Andy Matz, a senior insect science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A belt of Pabst Blue Ribbon or Colt 45 mixed into a paste of fermented fruit is borderline irresistible to just about any of the estimated …
“…Phalaena was an old word that Linnaeus used for all moths when he was classifying insects and I thought I should bring belated attention to the fact that the USA is running its first ever National Moth Week this very week. Wherever you are, chances are there’s an event taking place near you to celebrate the …
Great article featuring our own Dave Moskowitz… “The word “moth” may conjure up images of drab brown insects sticking to your screen door on a summer night. But there’s much more to these mostly-nocturnal fliers than meets the eye. Not only are moths extraordinarily diverse in color, shape and size, said David Moskowitz, a New …
“A crowd of 50 surrounded a 175 KW ultraviolet blacklight with a pale sheet to learn about moths during the first ever National Moth Week in Southampton, New Jersey. The July event is one of over 200 events occurring in different locations through July 29. The conservation group, Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission, …
Due to the threat of severe thunderstorms, tonight’s Fell House Moth Night in Allendale, NJ, has been postponed. It has been re-scheduled for Thursday, August 2, at 8:30 p.m.
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