For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: The scientific order Lepidoptera consists of butterflies and moths. The name Lepidoptera has its origins in the Greek language, with “lepido” meaning scales and “ptera” meaning wings. So literally translated, …
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For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: The Luna moth (Actias luna) is a large North American silk moth that is covered in a lovely soft-green color with long tails on the hindwing. If you have ever …
For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: While many female moths and butterflies attract males through the use of pheromores, ghost moths in the family Hepialidae display partial sex role reversal. The males both visually and chemically …
The Israeli Facebook photography group, Arthropods, Reptiles and Amphibian Photography, (צילום פרוקי-רגליים, חרקים, זוחלים ודו-חיים) is one of Israel’s most popular Facebook groups for nature photography, with over 6,300 members and dozens of posts every day. The group not only focuses on the aesthetics of photography, but also on citizen science. Here we document sightings …
Project Noah is a citizen science project mobilizing new generations of nature explorers and helping people around the world appreciate their local wildlife. The ‘Noah’ in Project Noah stands for networked organisms and habitats. Project Noah aims to harness the power and popularity of new mobile technologies to promote wildlife awareness, collect important ecological data, and …
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For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: Yucca moths in the genera Tegitcula and Parategicula are named for the amazing symbiotic relationship they have with their hostplant, the Yucca plant. As caterpillars, the yucca moth must feed on the …
A guest blog by Arlo Pelegrin Many people wonder when they see abug: Will it sting? Is it dangerous? I’ve never seen it before! When confronted with an unfamiliar,many-legged creature in or near the home, people all over the world can nowpoint a phone at it and capture a decent image. Then they can …
For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: The Pine Processionary moth (Thaumetopoea pinivora) is well-known in Europe for its interesting larval behavior. Caterpillars of this moth aggregate, or gather in large numbers, appearing to march like …
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For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about moths. From Project Noah: Many lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) engage in an interesting behavior known as mud-puddling, in which those with functioning mouthparts, or proboscices (some moths have vestigial proboscices, while others have no proboscis …
For every day of National Moth Week, our partner, citizen science website Project Noah will be featuring a fun fact about a species of moth. From Project Noah: The White Witch moth (Thysania agrippina), is an extremely large South American insect. According to the University of Florida Book of Insect Records, this moth has the …
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