Jake Francis, Director of Environmental Education at the Schrader Center wrote about their NMW even on the Schrader Environmental Education Center blog: For those of you that were unaware, last week was National Moth Week. National Moth Week was a nation-wide push for hobbyists and scientists to survey moths anywhere, from porch lights to national forests. Though the …
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The Dragonfly Woman tells the story of a rainy NMW event on her blog: I hosted a public moth night for National Moth Week over the weekend. I was really ready. I had enough lights, traps, and baits to have about 8 moth viewing stations spread across the grounds. I had a good 50 people …
Cynthia B. A. King, an entomologist working for the Native Invertebrate Program (Division of Forestry & Wildlife) in Hawaii, organized a NMW event on July 28th, 2012. It was our understanding that one of the objectives of National Moth Week was to introduce the general public to the often unnoticed and under-appreciated beauty and diversity …
Guest post: Cynthia King about NMW event – Oahu, Hawaii. Read More »
Southern Rhode Island joined the NMW hit parade with an event on Friday, July 27, at The Nature Conservancy’s Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve in Charlestown. Bruce Fellman covered the event (that he thoroughly enjoyed!) in his column. Ryan St. Laurent, a local moth’er and almost-Cornell-freshman, led the event. Read the article
The Dustin family in Maine invited their friends to a Moth Dinner Party to cerebrate NMW. They baked a moth inspired cake and watched Godzilla vs Mothra. The kids went on a scavenger hunt (see below) right before the cake was cut. Before the party, moth facts on colorful construction paper were placed around the …
To celebrate NMW Brian Cutting will lead a guided caterpillar hunt along the University of Delaware Botanic Gardens Lepidoptera Trail on July 28th at 10am. More information can be found here.
As part of National Moth Week, we are having our first-ever Moth Night at at DeKorte Park on Wednesday, beginning at 8:30 p.m. We’ll have a short talk by David Moskowitz, a co-founder of National Moth Week, who is bringing two awesome light set-ups to attract moths from all around. Says Dave: “We will set up …
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Mary Liz Jameson sent us a NMW update from Kansas: It will be a moth frenzy tonight in Kansas! The Wichita State University Field Ecology class will be mothing tonight. We have various traps for moths, and several folks who will be imaging. We will be submitting our data to DiscoverLife. It’s been HOT and …
Have you camera ready for Moth Week events! You can submit moth observations to any of our partner organizations . Discover Life, BAMONA and Project Noah introduce a special category for NMW, see below. More information on these and other partners is available on the ‘submitting data’ page [here]. We would also like to see …
The Athol Bird and Nature Club had the NMW Kickoff event last night with 15 folks participating at the Home of Dave and Shelley Small in Athol Ma. This is the first of 5 events across Central and Eastern Massachusetts in Athol, Worcester, New Salem, Framingham and Oak Bluffs… Great start to MNW. Click …
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