Some Recent NMW Press Coverage
Check us out: National Moth Week was the lead story in the July 14 Home News Tribune and on MyCentralJersey.com. We were also featured in the Monadock Ledger-Transcript.
Submit Your WA Moth Photos to a Virtual Moth Album by Inland Northwest Land Trust
In honor of National Moth Week, the Inland Northwest Land Trust of Spokane Washington, created a virtual album featuring photos of moths of eastern Washington. They invite you to show your support for National Moth Week by emailing your moth photos to bnicholson@inlandnwlandtrust.org with the location and your name for photo credit. Let’s give moths the …
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NMW Event at Rincon Heights Community Garden, Tucson, AZ
On Saturday, July 20th at 7:30 pm at the Rincon Heights Community Garden on 8th and Fremont a group of entomology graduate students will be giving a presentation on blacking lighting in conjunction with a hands on black lighting set up. Black lighting is a method of insect collection where a black light is set …
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NMW Event at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, NM
Saturday July, 27 – A public presentation will be held at the amphitheater on the Loop Road. The public presentation will be about the Remarkable Endemism of Moths at White Sands National Monument, and what we can learn about plants from moths. The public presentation begins at 8:00 pm and ends at 9:00 pm. Visitors …
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NMW Events at Catawba Science Center, Hickory, NC
FRIDAY NIGHT July 19, 2013 (The night before Moth Week Starts:) Naturalist Expeditions: Moth Watch MOTH WATCH WITH THE NATURALIST Kick off National Moth Week (July 20th to July 28th), join Catawba Science Center’s Lead Naturalist Bruce Beerbower for a nighttime field trip. Participants in this adventure will leave CSC at 7 pm and travel …
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NMW Events at Paul Smith’s College VIC, Paul Smiths, NY
Moth Night at the VIC Monday, 22 July As part of National Moth Week, a global celebration of moths and biodiversity, the VIC will host a naturalist-led crepuscular/evening walk along Heron Marsh from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM. This is an interesting time to be in the field, because daytime animals are moving between daytime …
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Hawkmoths Deter Bats with Sonic Blasts
Entomologists have known for awhile that tiger moths emit sonic clicks to interfere with bats’ sonar and avoid predation. Hawkmoths can do it too, it turns out! Jesse Barber, a behavioral ecologist with Boise State University and phylogeneticist Akito Kawahara of the University of Florida in Gainesville recently experimented with hawkmoths in Borneo. They captured …
Behind-the-Scenes Tours at the Smithsonian’s National Insect Collection
Behind-the-scenes tours of the National Insect Collection will be offered at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., July 20-26 Dr. John Brown, research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will offer one hour-long tour per day from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday of that week. Tours will be limited to …
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One More State! Where are you, South Dakota?
With the registration of a NMW event at the University of Wyoming’s Biodiversity Institute, we officially have events in 49 US states! With less than a month left until The Big Week, we need your help! Know someone in South Dakota? LIVE in South Dakota, yourself? Help us get to our goal of at least …
One Species at a Time Podcast Video
During NMW 2012, National Moth Week events were featured on the One Species at a Time podcast. The One Species at a Time podcast series from NMW Partner Encyclopedia of Life is hosted by Ari Daniel Shapiro and produced by Atlantic Public Media. EOL podcasts are supported by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Here’s …