Moth fun

Project Noah Fun Fact: mud-puddling

For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: Many lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) engage in an interesting behavior known as mud-puddling, in which those with functioning mouthparts, or proboscices (some moths have vestigial proboscices, while others have no proboscis …

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Project Noah Fun Fact: the White Witch moth

For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about a species of moth. From Project Noah: The White Witch moth (Thysania agrippina), is an extremely large South American insect. According to the University of Florida Book of Insect Records, this moth has the …

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Project Noah Fun Fact: the Bella moth

For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about a species of moth. From Project Noah: The Bella moth (Utetheisa ornatrix) has a very interesting biology. It’s larvae feed on members of the genus Crotalaria, often known as rattlepods. These plants are poisonous …

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Project Noah Kicks Off National Moth Week 2015!

Our partner, citizen science website Project Noah kicked off National Moth Week 2015 by featuring our logo moth—the Io moth (Automeris io)! For every day of National Moth Week, Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about a species of moth. From Project Noah: National Moth Week is a global citizen science project that emphasizes …

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Moth week at Bellavista Cloud Forest Ecuador – information in 4 languages

MOTH WEEK (Español) Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge and Reserve, una reserva de 700 hectáreas ubicada al noroccidente de Pichincha – Ecuador, no muy lejos de Quito, es sin duda un paraíso para encontrar biodiversidad de flora y fauna. Así que es un lugar ideal para mariposas nocturnas de varias formas, colores y tamaños, algunas casi …

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Texas Butterfly Ranch Focuses on Moths for National Moth Week

Our good friends at the Texas Butterfly Ranch have confessed to sometimes being a little guilty of “species-ism.” That is, they haven’t quite given moths their due. But this year will be different. “In a salute to National Moth Week July 18 – 26, we attempt to rectify this wrong with a focus on moths,” …

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“Nachfalter op. 157” Johann Strauss’ Music to Moth By

Before there was National Moth Week, there was the great 19th-century German composer Johann Strauss, who imagined the dancing and darting flight of the “night butterfly” in his playful waltz, “Nachtfalter (moth) op.157.” According to Wikipedia, Strauss wrote the waltz in 1854 and it was first performed at a parish festival ball near Vienna in …

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NMW new partner – Moths of Belize

Introducing a new website – Moths of Belize by Ian Morton “a photographic record and field guide to the moths of Southern Belize”. Well, if you are interested in wildlife then this could be paradise! We live just a mile and half from the sleepy town of Punta Gorda in the jungle of Southern Belize, …

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