Michal Rindos is hosting a National Moth Week event in Slovakia. He started with butterflies at the age of 9. In 2001 he started moth breeding and he specialized on Saturniidae and Sphingidae. Since 2008 he is studying biology and focusing on entomology at Commenius University. He chose Lepidoptera (makro) and Hymenoptera (Apocrita) – their relations, …
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The Dustin family in Maine are having a festive moth dinner party with their friends. We are looking forward to photos of moths and people celebrating NMW. Here is the invitation they sent: You and your family are invited to a moth dinner party. Do not be afraid-we will not be eating moths. The menu …
Marcie O’Connor is a moth’er in western Wisconsin. Marcie lives on an old farm that she and her husband are trying to “unfarm” and bring back the prairies and savannas that were here before it was farmed. On her website/blog ‘A Prairie Haven‘, Marcie writes about life on the farm and about mothing Attracting Moths …
Ken Childs, who posts and comments about moths and mothing on the Facebook group, sent us this description of his setup: The frame is made out of 3/4″ PVC pipe. I coated some scrap pieces of pvc with grease, put them in the holes in the cinder blocks and then filled the holes with concrete. …
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 …
Eric H. Metzler first saw butterflies at his grandmother’s rock garden. Tolerant parents allowed Eric to collect butterflies, and other natural history objects. Except for the fiddler crabs, Eric’s dad insisted that all specimens be dead. Profits from a paper route enabled the purchase of Holland’s The Butterfly Book, which cost $31.00 in 1955! At …
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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On 20-21 April, 2012, join Discover Life for the Spring Natural History Survey, and help collect data on species and their interactions. This 24-hour multi-site event will celebrate the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences opening their Nature Research Center’s new wing. This spring survey is a stepping-stone towards building a permanent network of study …
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Bruce Walsh, at the Department of Ecology and Evolution Biology and the Center for Insect Science of the University of Arizona, compiled a list of websites and protocols of mothing techniques. Lights, tips and how to spread and preserve specimens. Find it here. Here are some tips on lights for mothing that I copied from …
With winter upon most of the country, it doesn’t mean the end of moth season, it just means we need to think a little bit differently about how to find them. An age-old technique called “sugaring” or “baiting” is often used on warmer nights when the temperatures are about 50 degrees at dusk. The sugar …
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