Looking for moths is very easy. Many people just leave a porch light on and check what is attracted to the light. Others use blacklights and Mercury Vapor Lights that put out light in color spectrums that can be irresistible to moths. Special fermented baits are also used to draw moths in. Read below about different light setups and recipes from bait, that are used by moth’ers, and were sent to Moth Week.
Today National Moth Week has a special guest post from Jacob Gorneau. He is the creator of the Mission, Moths of the Americas on Project Noah. Moths are hidden treasures of the night; gracefully dancing as others sleep. Only those who work to find these beauties open themselves to the vast world of moths. Moths? …
Jenilee Montes is hosting a NMW event at Henri Pittier National Park in Aragua, Venezuela. The park occupies most of the northern state of Aragua and much of the northeastern state of Carabobo, and includes a considerable swath of the Venezuelan Coastal Range. The park has habitat for a large array of biodiversity and is considered …
Phil Huntley-Franck is hosting a National Moth Week event in Douglas, Oregon. Phil retired from a career in computers as a Lead Analyst / Project leader in 1991 then wrote several novels. His wife, Vi, is a published writer and artist. You can see her work at http://whereartmeetstheheart.com/, the website that Phil built for …
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Julian Donahue is a retired curator of Lepidoptera at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where his specialty was the taxonomy of tiger moths (Arctiidae), carpenter moths (Cossidae), and phycitine pyralid moths of the New World, especially of the American southwestern deserts and the Neotropics. He is a past president of The Lepidopterists’ …
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Cristóbal Ríos-Málaver is a Colombian biologist and entomologist studying butterflies and beetles of the family Lucanidae in the neotropical highlands of Venezuela. Cristo has also conducted several studies on biodiversity of butterflies in the Central Cordillera of Colombia, examining the patterns of species richness in riparian forests and changes in species of butterflies along altitude gradients near …
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Marcie O’Connor set up her moth lights during a recent Grinnell College Reunion. Read the blog story about this ‘moth night’ on Marcie’s blog – “A Prairie Haven”.
I’m assuming that most of the people that have registered events so far are planning on setting up a MV light and sheet at their local park or watching their front porch light. But, has anyone thought about setting up a light in their kitchen during NMW? If you are bold enough to attract the …
Shawn Wainwright is hosting a NMW event at Cattus Island County Park Nature Center. Cattus Island is located on NJ’s Barnegat Bay and is home to the Cooper Environmental Center. The park consists of maritime pine/oak forest as well as a network of freshwater wetlands containing several species of hardwood trees. The varied environment of …
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Here are some up-to-date stats about National Moth Week Events: 40 U.S. States have at least one event planned. 30 U.S. States have more than one event planned. 1 U.S. Commonwealth (Puerto Rico) has an event planned. 2 Canadian Provinces have organized events. 13 different countries have events scheduled. 5 World Continents are represented by …
Bill grew up in New Jersey (the birthplace of National Moth Week!) and became interested in moths and butterflies over sixty years ago via an introduction by his father, Don Oehlke. Bill’s mothing set-up consists of a 175-watt mercury vapor bulb mounted onto the chimney of his house to call in female Saturniidae (giant silk moths), …
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