So far all 3 North American countries have participants scheduled for National Moth Week! Events are scheduled in Mexico on multiple nights and 2 Canadian provinces are represented by activities. Moth-ers in 35 US states are planning to participate in the citizen science activities during the week of July 19-27. Check out the map to …
National Moth Week has been accepted for inclusion in the 2015 edition of Chase’s Calendar of Events, available in late September 2014. In responding to our initial inquiry, Editor-in-Chief Holly McGuire said NMW is “the kind of entry we want in Chase’s.” She also admitted to being “a big moth fan.” (We love that!) Published …
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Go Ahead, Bug Me creator, Becky Randall, sent this article about their Moth Week 2013 event in California, USA: Last year for National Moth Week, the Insect Sciences Museum of California and Facebook page Go ahead, BUG me co-hosted a mothing event which they called Mid-summer Moth Madness. Here is the poster they made to …
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June 27th – 29th, 2014: Burr Oak State Park in Athens and Morgan counties Everyone is familiar with colorful day-flying butterflies, but far fewer are tuned into the darker side of the Lepidopteran world: moths. Yet moth species outnumber butterflies by a factor of 22. Most moths fly under cover of darkness, and are harder …
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This lovely long-form blog is courtesy of Eric C. Reuter. All photography is (c) to him. You can also check out his excellent bird photography here. It is a place that had never truly been explored for moths. If it had been, we surely would have heard about what lives in these woods. With …
Discovering Moths In The Southern NY Catskill Mountains – Eric C. Reuter Read More »
Adrian Thysse recently shared his fascinating and beautiful video of the Devonian Botanic Garden’s July 26th Moth Night. It is a gorgeous production, with excellent & artful photography and set to lovely hypnotic music. Definitely worth the watch! Visit his blog post to watch the video, or check it out on YouTube, or below!
I often think about how to influence my neighbors in the direction of planting natives and observing the biodiversity in our back yards. We live adjacent to an urban forest and our yards are key in developing a biological corridor. How do we deepen our garden conversations ? How do we invite more caterpillars, butterflies and silk moths? Have …
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, located in the Pinelands National Reserve, hosted a National Moth Week event on July 22. Dr. Jamie Cromartie, Associate Professor of Entomology, led the event. Students and members of the community gathered on campus July 22 with Dr. Jamie Cromartie, associate professor of Entomology, for the college’s National …
Jefferson County Park’s July 24th moth night brought in a wide range of ages from elementary students to teens to senior citizens. Check out some pictures:
Richard Parsons from BellaVista Cloud Forest Reserve in Ecuador sends us the following write-up about their NMW event: “Moths in Bellavista are of an enormous diversity, and we know from scientists that many species are likely to be new to science. The Cloud Forests of northwestern Ecuador are still well-preserved at our altitude (above 1500m …
NMW Event Re-Cap: BellaVista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador Read More »
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