With winter upon most of the country, it doesn’t mean the end of moth season, it just means we need to think a little bit differently about how to find them. An age-old technique called “sugaring” or “baiting” is often used on warmer nights when the temperatures are about 50 degrees at dusk. The sugar …
Step 1. Locate a suitable patch of forest, field, or desert. Step 2. Wait for a warm, moonless summer night. Step 3. Using a long extension cord, plug in a blacklight. Or even better, a mercury-vapor lamp. Step 4. Sit back and watch your prey arrive.* Read more From Scientific American Blogs, 6 December, 2011
Crinkleroot “…was born in a tree and raised by bees!”. He can speak caterpillar, moth, and butterfly, all at the same time. And he is our new friend and supporter. Jim Arnosky, the author who created Crinkleroot, gave us permission to use images and text from the book:”CRINKELROOT GUIDE TO KNOWING BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS” on …
Science Now, 15 November 2011 What was blue, yellow, and fuzzy all over? The answer, according to a new study on prehistoric color, is a 47-million-year-old moth. The brilliant hues, researchers say, may indicate that this group of insects has been waging an evolutionary arms race that dates back tens of millions of years. …
Published on WILDNEWJERSEY at 11/7/2011 by Dave Moskowitz This is my first column for Wild New Jersey and I am very excited that I was asked to contribute. I hope to focus future columns on the incredible moths around us. With that theme in mind, I am very excited to introduce a new project that is underway …
New Jersey Moths: Introducing National Moth Week Read More »
Jim Harrison, photographer Harvard News Office From: The Scientist, October 1, 2011 One of the fundamental questions of biology is the amount and full nature of biodiversity on Earth. It should be worrisome to all that 250 years after Carl Linnaeus introduced the practice of binomial nomenclature and articulated the goal of identifying all species …
Opinion: Exploring a Little-Known Planet, By Edward O. Wilson Read More »
As of of today seventeen states are registered as participants in NMW 2011. See map on the Location page.Alabama Connecticut Georgia Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota New Jersey New York North Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Washington Wisconsin
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