For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about the underwing moths, Catocala, and their look-alikes. From Project Noah: Fun Fact! While adult underwing moths in the genus Catocala are masters of disguise, so are their larval counterparts. These caterpillars are a variety …
For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about the underwing moths, Catocala, and their look-alikes. From Project Noah: Fun Fact! Moths in the Catocala genus are unique for their themed names. Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist credited with being the “father of …
For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about the underwing moths, Catocala, and their look-alikes. From Project Noah: Fun Fact! The underwings are moths in the genus Catocala (family Erebidae). They are known for having camouflaged forewings and boldly colored hindwings, that …
I have been asked to write a few words on moths and NMW. So here, in a not too roundabout way, I’ll attempt to explain the significance of moths and National Moth Week . First up – moths. Why should anyone study moths at all…. ? An intrinsic answer would be “because they’re there, they …
Project Noah celebrated National Moth Week in 2015 by promoting users to contribute to the official National Moth Week mission, Moths of the World. Users contributed spottings from all six continents Lepidoptera are found on. Project Noah users who submitted spottings to the Moths of the World mission during National Moth Week were awarded …
Our non-profit organization aims in the documentation of organisms (Taxonomy, Ecology, Biogeography) on a global scale, as well as in the interactions between organisms (see http://www.nkis.info). NKIS.info also provides functionality for the documentation of biotopes, fossils, minerals and rocks and has a quality management system according to ISO 9001. National Moth Week is a great …
Submit moth observations to NKIS – Guest post by Michael Kurz Read More »
The Flickr album contains 357 photos of moths from National Moth Week participants in Japan. More about NMW in Japan at http://www.nationalmothweek-jp.net/
Écrit en Français en bas Jean Haxaire, a senior professor of Earth and Life Sciences at Bordeaux University and Agen (high school) in France, loves hawk moths so much that he has created a new website dedicated to the Sphingidae moth family accessible in both his native French and in English. National Moth Week welcomes …
French NMW Partner Shares Love of Hawk Moths With World Read More »
The National Moth Week team is delighted to welcome its newest member, Ian Morton of Belize, an avid supporter of citizen science and NMW participant, who created the moths-of-belize.com website. As a team member, Ian is serving as an administrator of NMW’s Flickr page, which recently has tripled its membership and number of photos on …
For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah featured a fun fact about moths. This is the last day of National Moth Week, but we hope you enjoyed all of the Fun Facts! From Project Noah: Some moths in the metalmark family (Choreutidae), specifically moths in the Brenthia genus, …
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