The world needs more moth watchers. Every one of you who watches moths might try this during Moth Week: put on a Meet a Moth for Breakfast at your sheet or even porch light from 5 AM to 9 AM. Invite your friends—a book discussion group, sports team, scout or 4H group, school class, neighborhood, …
Carl Barrentine, one of our NMW team members, has kindly shared with us an excellent portable strategy for live-trapping moths. Candidly, the notion for the ‘hamper trap’ was actually crystallized when Katsumi Ishizuka shared images of his ‘bait trap’ for collecting underwing moths (Catocala). I’d employed the standard ‘bed sheet’ technique for years, but was …
The Hamper Trap—Guest Post by Dr. Carl Barrentine Read More »
I came to moths by the same route the moths themselves do – by way of caterpillars. I have been fascinated by them for years, and they are still the primary domain of my interest in Lepidoptera. I moved to Massachusetts from Texas in 2014, and I was amazed at the diversity of insects to be …
Mothing and caterpillar hunting – Guest post by Isobelle Fox Read More »
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 …
Project Noah extends virtual patch availability to August 14 Read More »
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 …
Project Noah Celebrates National Moth Week 2016 with virtual patch Read More »
There are 98 mothing events today, July 25, 2016! Check the map for mothing events being held around the world today. Green events are public, Blue are private.
There are 87 mothing events today, July 24, 2016! Check the map for mothing events being held around the world today. Green events are public, Blue are private.
Please see the below dates for a variety of moth-watching events in the Finger Lakes Region of New York. For more information please follow this link. Friday July 8th (starting at 9:30pm): Stonybrook State Park Moth Night. Meet at the picnic shelter near the campground. Led by Jason J. Dombroskie, Ph.D., Collection Manager, Cornell University …
Moth-watching events in the Finger Lakes Region of New York Read More »
National Moth Week Flickr group “one of the fastest growing groups on Flickr”. Since the group opened its doors earlier this year to images taken at any time of year, the numbers of members has seen a startling increase to well over 500 members and an astonishing 25,000+ images. If you are not already a …
National Moth Week is now one of the most widespread citizen science projects in the world. It is coordinated by an all-volunteer team in the USA (New Jersey, New York, North Dakota), Ecuador and Belize. For the past four years, public and private mothing events have been held annually in in more than 65 countries (and all 50 …
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