“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 …
Michal Rindos is hosting a National Moth Week event in Slovakia. He started with butterflies at the age of 9. In 2001 he started moth breeding and he specialized on Saturniidae and Sphingidae. Since 2008 he is studying biology and focusing on entomology at Commenius University. He chose Lepidoptera (makro) and Hymenoptera (Apocrita) – their relations, …
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Not all Moth Week events are held in the woods at night. Bill Evans will lead a morning moth walk in a parking lot. Sunday July 29th Morning moth walk through the City of Ithaca, NY. 7AM-10AM. Meet at southwest corner of Wegman’s parking lot at 7AM. This field trip will be led by Bill …
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To celebrate NMW Brian Cutting will lead a guided caterpillar hunt along the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens Lepidoptera Trail on July 28th at 10am. More information can be found here.
The Nature Conservancy will host a special event on Friday at the Francis Carter Preserve in Charlestown, in celebration of the first annual National Moth Week. The event is cosponsored by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey. Participants are encouraged to bring a flashlight, camera and folding chair. Rain will cancel the event. Beginning at …
National Moth Week has become the largest Global Citizen Science project focusing on moths. There are events and moth nights across the United States and the world. There are nearly 300 registered locations in as diverse places as the middle of New York City to the Australian Outback to the most remote jungles of Kenya, The Gambia, Costa …
This website highlights the journals of Henry David Thoreau. It seems Thoreau was having his own moth night on this very date in 1852! “Wings large and splendid …Thoreau’s Journal: 26-July-1852 Went to Cambridge and Boston to-day. Dr. Harris says that my great moth is the Attacus luna; may be regarded as one of several emperor …
As part of National Moth Week, we are having our first-ever Moth Night at at DeKorte Park on Wednesday, beginning at 8:30 p.m. We’ll have a short talk by David Moskowitz, a co-founder of National Moth Week, who is bringing two awesome light set-ups to attract moths from all around. Says Dave: “We will set up …
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Mary Liz Jameson sent us a NMW update from Kansas: It will be a moth frenzy tonight in Kansas! The Wichita State University Field Ecology class will be mothing tonight. We have various traps for moths, and several folks who will be imaging. We will be submitting our data to DiscoverLife. It’s been HOT and …
Moth Night at PPA TIME & PLACE: 8-10 pm; Pinelands Preservation Alliance, 17 Pemberton Road, Southampton, NJ 08088 Description: Join PPA, Elena Tartaglia from the Rutgers University Graduate Program in Ecology & Evolution, and PPA volunteer Matt Sichel for an evening of moth observation and education to celebrate National Moth Week. The mission of National Moth Week is …
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