NMW is thrilled to announce our new partnership with LepiMap, the Atlas of African Lepidoptera. Megan Loftie-Eaton, LepiMAP Project Coordinator, gives us the following info on their project: LepiMAP is an awesome Citizen Science project run jointly by the Lepidopterists Society of Africa (LepSoc) and the Animal Demography Unit, University of Cape Town. LepiMAP is the …
June 27th – 29th, 2014: Burr Oak State Park in Athens and Morgan counties Everyone is familiar with colorful day-flying butterflies, but far fewer are tuned into the darker side of the Lepidopteran world: moths. Yet moth species outnumber butterflies by a factor of 22. Most moths fly under cover of darkness, and are harder …
Mothapalooza celebrates the fantastic diversity of Ohio’s moths Read More »
The Natural History Information System (www.nkis.info) is a citizen-science project that collects information on all kind of organisms worldwide. Registered users can submit data online to distribution, phenology, activity, biotopes, species interactions and many others, whereas anybody can analyze these data with the aid of standardized analysis tools (mainly maps and diagrams). Registered users also …
Project Noah is a citizen-science based website open to amateur nature lovers and scientists alike. One can submit data points, known as “spottings,” identified or unidentified. If your “spotting” is unidentified, members of the community will assist in helping with the identified. To contribute to citizen science, one can add their spottings to “missions” which …
Project Noah aims to document 1000 spottings of moths found during National Moth Week Read More »
Check out David Beadle’s National Moth Week post on his blog, Adventures in Mothland. David is the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America (along with Seabrooke Leckie) and a member of our Science Advisory Board. His post features some great photography as well. “National Moth Week is a great …
We’ve just added a super helpful new feature to the pnwmoths site – a checklist generator! What’s a checklist generator, you say? You pick any combination of states/provinces and/or counties/regional districts and the website instantly generates a list of all the moths from our database in that region! Should be great for using during National …
Pacific Northwest Moth – new checklist generator Read More »
Why do we sponsor National Moth Week? We love nature. We love life. We wish for things to be always good, for positive relationships of all kinds, whether globally or at home, between people and with the environment, everywhere, always. Utopia. Not being naïve’, just wishing for good. Such a ubiquitous project as National Moth …
Guest Blogger: Karen Loughrey Richard, Community Director, Project Noah Project Noah is a community of over 200,000 nature-lovers worldwide. Launched in early 2010, it all started off as an experiment to see if we could build a fun, location-based mobile application to encourage people to reconnect with nature and document local wildlife. We wanted to …
Check out our selection of moth specimens! Click on the link below to view the monthly special list. If you order from this selection of specimens, you will receive them at 10% off the list price. We have limited numbers of some species, so fill out your request for a quote today! Moth Special – …
BIOQUIPBUGS MOTH MONTHLY SPECIAL Celebrating National Moth Week! Read More »
Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) is a unique, well-respected, and established database of verified butterfly and moth sighting records. BAMONA currently houses nearly 600,000 individual sighting records that have been submitted by the public and verified by collaborating lepidopterists who review each submission. Sighting data are regularly exported to scientists at academic institutions …
Contribute to Science by Submitting Sightings to BAMONA Read More »
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