I’m assuming that most of the people that have registered events so far are planning on setting up a MV light and sheet at their local park or watching their front porch light. But, has anyone thought about setting up a light in their kitchen during NMW? If you are bold enough to attract the …
What could be better than finding moths? How about finding a moth website you didn’t knew existed? When Googling Plume Moths earlier this morning, I found this site dedicated to them. It is run by Dr. Deborah Matthews from the The McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity. Their website looks pretty cool as well. So for …
Recently, on the Mothing Facebook page, John Himmelman posted a picture and description of his setup: “My moth light set-up. A UV “de-zappified” bug zapper with sheet attached to shed. The shed’s at the far end of the mowed yard at the edge of the woods. I keep it set up against the shed because …
Seabrooke Leckie, co-author of the “New Peterson Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America“, and a sponsor of National Moth Week, will present this newest title in the Peterson Field Guide Series in a series of presentations during an upcoming book tour. Here is what she posted on her blog on April 20th, 2012: I head …
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National Moth Week is pleased to announce that Todd J. Dreyer has joined our team. Todd is Chief Photographer at Dreyer Imaging, a New Jersey based commercial & scientific stock photography company. He recieved his training at Middlesex County College and Rochester Institute of Technology. In his free time, Todd photo catalogs the Odonata & Lepidoptera of Middlesex County, …
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Step 1. Locate a suitable patch of forest, field, or desert. Step 2. Wait for a warm, moonless summer night. Step 3. Using a long extension cord, plug in a blacklight. Or even better, a mercury-vapor lamp. Step 4. Sit back and watch your prey arrive.* Read more From Scientific American Blogs, 6 December, 2011
Seabrooke Leckie is a freelance biologist and writer living in rural eastern Ontario. She holds a B.Sc.H. in Zoology and has worked on field research contracts in many parts of the continent, from California to Québec, British Columbia to Ohio, as well as her home province of Ontario. She discovered moths quite by accident one …
Here is my setup in my backyard. The sheet is in the rear of the photo.I use a Bioquip 175W Mercury Vapor Light and a ballast I bought through an ad in the News of the Lepidopterist’s Society and run it off of an outlet by the deck. I have a typical 1\3 acre suburban …
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