Mothing

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.

NMW Event – Phil Huntley-Franck in Douglas, Oregon

  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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NMW Event – Julian Donahue in Elyria Canyon, California

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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NMW event – Cristóbal Ríos-Málaver at Altos de Pipe, Venezuela

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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NMW Event – Cattus Island County Park Nature Center

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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