An Awesome Moth Night at the Meadowlands, NJ
The Meadowlands Commission and Bergen County Audubon Society would like to thank all the folks who turned out last night for our first annual Moth Night. We stopped counting around 100 or so. Read more
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Moth Night photos
With so many NMW events, your camera’s memory card is probably full with great images from moth night[s]. Here is what we suggest you do: Moths images – Submit to one one of NMW’s partners. For many moth species distributional information is lacking or poorly documented. National Moth Week observations and collections can fill in …
‘Moths at midnight’ at the Jefferson County Conservation (July 25)
Entomologist Moni Hayne sent us a link to a local newspaper article announcing their Moth Week event at the Jefferson County Conservation center in Iowa: Jefferson County Conservation is working with local entomologist Moni Hayne to spotlight the biodiversity of moths during National Moth Week Monday through July 29. Read more
Celebrate National Moth Week at Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Jefferson City, Mo. – July 24
Celebrate National Moth Week and explore the natural wonder of moths at two events sponsored by Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. At 7 p.m. July 24, an educational presentation will be given at Orr Street Studios in Columbia. Led by local entomologist and photographer Donna Brunet, the presentation will include many of her moth photos. …
NMW Event – Sam King at Radnor Lake Tennessee
Radnor Lake State Natural Area is located just south of downtown Nashville. The 85 acre lake was originally constructed a reservoir for steam powered locomotives in the early 1900’s. In 1973 Radnor Lake became Tennessee’s first natural area with the help of state lawmakers and numerous local supporters. Radnor Lake now sits in the middle …
Earn a special Limited-Edition Moth Week patch!
During National Moth Week our partner, Project Noah will be sharing some of the most beautiful moths from around the world, and also spotlighting some of the members of our community that have great collections of moth spottings. Everyone can submit moth spotting to Project Noah. To submit you will have to sign in through an existing …
NMW Guest Post – Hungry Pests
We would like to thank Greg Rosenthal of the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service for this guest post. While we all love moths here at National Moth Week, lets remember that some can be down right destructive to our local environment. So lets keep an eye our for these species when we are at the sheet. …
Attention Massachusetts Moth’ers
Want to learn more about moths, well check this out! http://sustainabilityalmanac.org/ai1ec_event/fly-by-nighters-celebrate-national-moth-week/
NMW Event Update – Virginia
This is for all you Virginia Moth’ers out there: Bob Perkins of the Blue Ridge Discovery Center will survey moths in the area around the headquarters building of Matthews State Forest from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Visitors interested in moths and other night-flying critters will be welcome. Bob, who has a life-long interest in insects, …
NMW event – Cristóbal Ríos-Málaver at Altos de Pipe, Venezuela
Cristóbal Ríos-Málaver is a Colombian biologist and entomologist studying butterflies and beetles of the family Lucanidae in the neotropical highlands of Venezuela. Cristo has also conducted several studies on biodiversity of butterflies in the Central Cordillera of Colombia, examining the patterns of species richness in riparian forests and changes in species of butterflies along altitude gradients near …
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