Andy Matz and Gabrielle Cooper organized a NMW event in Nebraska, at Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center in Denton, (Just outside of Lincoln). They got volunteers’ help from the UNL Insect Science Club and members of the UNL Entomology department. Andy told us about the event in a recent email: “While we didn’t have many …
Dino J. Martins is a Kenyan entomologist, and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Dino participated in NMW in Kenya and blogged about it on his personal blog and on his National Geographic New Watch column. Read about Dino’s mothing during NMW on National Geographic News Watch Read Dudu Diaries – Dino’s blog about the world …
The Second Annual National Moth Week will start on July 20th, 2013 and continue until July 28th. It’s not too early to register – see information and online registration form here.
The Delaware caterpillar walk was organized by the Society of Natural History of Delaware, and was led by Brian Cutting from the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, at the University of Delaware. About 40 people of all ages attended the event. Many lepidoptera species in various life stages including the well camouflaged ‘curve-lined angle’ …
Cynthia B. A. King, an entomologist working for the Native Invertebrate Program (Division of Forestry & Wildlife) in Hawaii, organized a NMW event on July 28th, 2012. It was our understanding that one of the objectives of National Moth Week was to introduce the general public to the often unnoticed and under-appreciated beauty and diversity …
Guest post: Cynthia King about NMW event – Oahu, Hawaii. Read More »
Marcie O’Connor often writes about moths on her blog – A Prairie Haven. Marcie was one of the very first participants to register a NMW event. In a recent blog post she said:”I normally put up my lights to attract moths a few times a week, but I do it by myself. This time I …
NMW event – Marcie O’connor, Buffalo County, Wisconsin Read More »
The NMW event at the John Fell House in Allendale, NJ was postponed due to rainy weather. It was rescheduled to August 9th. Jim Wright blogged about the last event of NMW 2012.event on Celery Farm & Beyond Blog.
Southern Rhode Island joined the NMW hit parade with an event on Friday, July 27, at The Nature Conservancy’s Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve in Charlestown. Bruce Fellman covered the event (that he thoroughly enjoyed!) in his column. Ryan St. Laurent, a local moth’er and almost-Cornell-freshman, led the event. Read the article
The Dustin family in Maine invited their friends to a Moth Dinner Party to cerebrate NMW. They baked a moth inspired cake and watched Godzilla vs Mothra. The kids went on a scavenger hunt (see below) right before the cake was cut. Before the party, moth facts on colorful construction paper were placed around the …
We had our NMW event, in the Bonanza Creek ExperimentalForest, which is a few miles west of Fairbanks. The collecting site was in the floodplain of the Tanana River, at the base of a bluff covered with a relict steppe habitat, and at the edge of a bog. Moths were few and far between–at ourlatitude …
Guest post, Ken Philip – NMW In Alaska & First Fairbanks record for Drepana arcuata Read More »
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