National Moth Week is one of the largest Citizen Science projects about moths in the world. Everyone who participates in NMW can help make meaningful contributions to our understanding of moth distribution and biodiversity. The importance of citizen science was recently recognized with the discovery of a new species of a lacewing by a photographer …
From the ‘New Scientist’ new findings on interesting moth behavior:: Many species of moth are experts in camouflage, with the ability to make themselves practically invisible to predators by matching the pattern on their wings with that of their background. But surprisingly little is known about the behaviour surrounding this conjuring trick. In a first …
Moths know how to melt into the background / New Scientist Read More »
“If there’s one thing moths like, it’s a cheap beer. “The sweeter and stinkier the better,” said Andy Matz, a senior insect science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A belt of Pabst Blue Ribbon or Colt 45 mixed into a paste of fermented fruit is borderline irresistible to just about any of the estimated …
Richard, a NMW supporter, published moth photos and stories during NMW. Here is the last NMW post from Richard’s blog: “Okay, this is it for the moth photo posts (for a while, anyway). I usually do a Single Image Sundays post right about now, but I’m supersizing it for you with a bonus slideshow of select photos …
Michal Rindos is hosting a National Moth Week event in Slovakia. He started with butterflies at the age of 9. In 2001 he started moth breeding and he specialized on Saturniidae and Sphingidae. Since 2008 he is studying biology and focusing on entomology at Commenius University. He chose Lepidoptera (makro) and Hymenoptera (Apocrita) – their relations, …
Guest post – Michal Rindos about NMW in Slovakia Read More »
The Pace of Nature had a splendid National Moth Week, On the last day of NMW he is giving us ‘the exploding moth!’. Read More
In celebration of National Moth Week, Project Noah’s blog is all about moth’ers and moths around the world. Read about Project Noah mothing members in India, Australia, Germany, South Africa and more.
Published – Seattle Times, July 27, 2012 A group of Northwest biologists is creating the first comprehensive guide to the region’s moths. Butterflies are easy to love, but their night-flying cousins have always been a little harder to cozy up to. A group of Northwest biologists hopes to change that with the first comprehensive guide …
Moths hold the spotlight in first comprehensive guide to Northwest species -Seatle Times Read More »
The first annual National Moth Week, the largest global citizen science project, is getting bigger and better everyday. New location are added to map every day, and since the last update we added locations around the US (nothing from North Dakota, yet) and Canada, France and the Azores. Events announcements, blog posts and news article …
In celebration of National Moth Week, Audubon Butterflies app and Insects and Spider app, are on sale on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and Amazon for just $0.99 cents until July 29th.
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