The Hawkmoths of the northern Great Plains Poster is based upon specimens in the North Dakota State Insect Reference Collection (NDSU- Fargo, ND), specimens in the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Museum (SDSU- Brookings, SD) an extensive literature search, about 45 years of collecting moths in the northern Great Plains by the author and numerous contributions from …
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Catocala elocata (תנשמית הצפצפה) was taken by Oz Ritner (Israel Nature Site) in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 2016. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st …
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings, comprise the genus Catocala, which is part of the large Erebidae family. This photo is of a moth resembling the true underwings – a Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing (Noctua janthe) was taken by Flickr member bramblejungle in East Hagbourne, England, United Kingdom, August 2010. See more photos of Underwings and other …
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This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Ultronia Underwing (Catocala ultronia) was taken by Nancy Magnusson in Howard, Maryland, United States (June 2000). See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. …
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This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings, comprise the genus Catocala, which is part of the large Erebidae family. This photo is of a moth resembling the true underwings – the Large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) of the Noctuidae family. The photo was taken by David Short in September 2013. See more photos of Underwings …
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This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Yellow-banded Underwing was taken by Yankech gary in Rouge Park Moth night, 2013. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. Anyone can participate. Register a public or private …
This year’s National Moth Week’s spotlighted moths are the Underwings. This photo of a Red Underwing (Catocala nupta) was taken by Dave Curtis in Langham, England, United Kingdom in August 2014. See more photos of Underwings and other moths on the National Moth Week Flickr group. National Moth Week 2016 will be held from 23rd to 31st July. Anyone can participate. …
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Citizen Science is not a new concept, although it was not until the late 20th Century that the concept really became popular and hugely successful. As early as the mid 1700’s Carl Linnaeus (who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature) would send his students and friends out to distant …
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Écrit en Français en bas Jean Haxaire, a senior professor of Earth and Life Sciences at Bordeaux University and Agen (high school) in France, loves hawk moths so much that he has created a new website dedicated to the Sphingidae moth family accessible in both his native French and in English. National Moth Week welcomes …
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For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah featured a fun fact about moths. This is the last day of National Moth Week, but we hope you enjoyed all of the Fun Facts! From Project Noah: Some moths in the metalmark family (Choreutidae), specifically moths in the Brenthia genus, …
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