Indiana Cristo is among a small group of people outside the U.S. who’ve been participating in National Moth Week every year since it was founded in 2012. So, it was an easy decision for him to become the country coordinator for his native land of Colombia – our first coordinator in South America. As a …
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As National Moth Week’s country coordinator for the West Africa nation of Liberia, Dr. Benedictus “Ben” Freeman has a big task ahead of him: introduce his fellow citizens to the enriching and fun experience of moth-watching. A conservation biologist who specializes in ornithology, Ben admits that mothing had not been on his radar until recently. …
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National Moth Week is observed worldwide every year, but the southern hemisphere presents special challenges, with July being the middle of winter in that part of the globe. For Dave Rentz, however, there’s a convenient work-around: He lives in northeastern Australia, where observing moths – along with his other favorite insects – can be a …
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National Moth Week is pleased to welcome Sunday Berlioz KAKPO of the Republic of Benin as our second country coordinator on the continent of Africa. Sunday is an emerging expert in the field of biodiversity informatics and has published data with The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and iNaturalist portals. He is on the faculty …
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Well, for the “What”, as Ian Morton wrote in 2016 “Anything Goes” So why register your moth “event” for National Moth Week. What is the significance? In short – every single observation counts, by contributing to the “bigger picture”. How?? Citizen science is not new – collection of moth data and bird data from observers …
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Carl Barrentine, participants since 2013 and National Moth Week team member, is documenting moth species flying in his backyard. Carl will share his methods and findings in a series of daily videos during National Moth Week 2020.
I am Sajan KC from Nepal. I will be 26 this July and I love Lepidoptera. A butterfly or a moth, what difference does it make? I first came across mothing in 2017. It was a time when I used to be studying all insects around me in general, so I wasn’t quite only into …
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Jacob Gorneau was 15 when he came to a moth night in East Brunswick, NJ, in 2013. He and his dad traveled more than 150 miles from upstate New York to meet the NMW team, who’d started the observance just a year earlier. By then, however, Jacob already was a valuable contributor to NMW’s success. …
National Moth Week is pleased to welcome Oz Rittner of Tel Aviv University in Israel as the newest NMW country coordinator. Oz is the Lepidoptera collection manager at the Steinhardt Museum at the Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies at the university. He started and maintains Israel-nature-site.com and has been an NMW partner since the …
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