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Our Giant Silk Moths and Ancient Mythology

National Moth Week – “The Year of the Silk Moth” – What’s in a name? Participate in National Moth Week and Explore the Wonders of Moths! By Dave Moskowitz Our Giant Silk Moths and Ancient Mythology: Our Beautiful Giant Silk Moths and the Mythological Roots of Their Names This year, National Moth Week is spotlighting …

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Project Noah aims to document 1000 spottings of moths found during National Moth Week

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 …

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Meet NMW Partner – The Xerces Society

Established in 1971, the Xerces Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of local citizens to implement conservation and education programs. Over the past four decades, Xerces has protected endangered species and their habitat, produced ground-breaking publications on insect conservation, trained thousands of farmers and land …

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Meet NMW supporters – Miami Blue Chapter and Broward County Butterfly Chapters of North American butterfly Association (NABA)

Lepidoptera are estimated to be about 80% moths and 20% butterflies. Although huge in numbers of species, moths, largely nocturnal, have taken a back seat to their typically more colorful diurnal butterfly cousins in our imaginations, enthusiasm, and culture. National Moth Week may be the beginning of our appreciation of our moths — their fantastic …

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National Moth Week Partners with BAMONA for Data Collection

Butterflies and Moths of North America (www.butterfliesandmoths.org) is excited to partner with National Moth Week (NMW).  Our website provides easy online submission of your backyard photographs, and we encourage all NMW participants to create a free account and to submit data they collect.  Participants in NMW can upload their photographs and our team of regional …

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The new Peterson Guide to Moth – Book tour schedule

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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Meet our partners – David Small – Athol Bird and Nature Club

Dave Small, a lifelong MA resident is president of the 250 member Athol Bird and Nature Club (www.millersriver.net) and currently acting Director of the Millers River Environmental Center. Dave shares his passion for Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies and most recently moths through workshops, lectures and field trips around New England. Attending the 2011 Lep course at …

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