Do you guys remember Cristóbal Ríos-Málaver’s Venezuela NMW events from 2012? Well Cristo is back this year to participate in NMW. In fact he’s been running moth nights – Noches de Pollillas as monthly events since last year’s NMW! He holds his events at a cloud forest that is part of the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research …
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Hey NJ Moth-ers! The Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission will hold its first Moth Night of the season this Friday, June 21. This is the actual, real-deal birthplace of NMW, so if you’re in the area, stop by for a night of mothing with us, the NMW team. The event will be at …
Mothapalooza – a NMW partner was held this past weekend in Shawnee State Forest, OH and was a great success! About 150 (!) moth-ers from ten or twelve states – as far as Nebraska, Connecticut, and Florida – and Canada made the scene, and saw lots of cool stuff. Check out Jim McCormac’s blog post for …
NMW’s newest partner is The Nature of Israel, a website run by Oz Rittner and dedicated to the fauna of Israel. Check them out!
NMW’s newest supporter is Teá Kesting-Handly. Teá runs a butterfly identification website and rearing blog highlighting the life cycles of some butterflies and moths. Teá has been studying butterflies and moths for about 6 years and has published a paper in Invertebrates Magazine on the genetics of Monarch butterflies. She’s been doing a moth research project with …
Work is continuing on the UK Moth Night www.mothnight.info, which this year takes place on 8-10 August with the theme of tiger moths. The event has been run annually by Atropos (the UK journal for butterfly, moth and dragonfly enthusiasts) since 1999, now in association with Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. …
This article ran last week on LiveScience – The Greater Wax moth, a common Pyralid found in North America, Europe and Asia, can hear sounds up to 300 kilohertz – the highest known sound frequency. This is about 100 khz higher than bats can hear and our human ears can hear sounds up to only 20 …
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You may remember Bill Oehlke as a 2012 NMW supporter. Well, Bill has signed on again as a 2013 NMW supporter too! 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 …
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NMW’s newest partner is the Encyclopedia of Life, a website dedicated to providing global access to knowledge about life on earth. EOL is a collaborative effort among scientists, citizen scientists and the general public to share millions of pages of information and multimedia about species, including moths! NMW participants can share photos of moths from …
We’re pleased to introduce NMW’s newest international partner: Biodiversity Bhutan. Follow the link to visit (and like!) their facebook page. BioDiversity Bhutan (established 2012), is a Citizen Science project initiated by the Department of Science at Mendrelgang Middle Secondary School in Tsirang, Bhutan under the supervision of Mr. Irungbam Jatishwor Singh. The Biodiversity Bhutan project aims …
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