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National Moth Week Welcomes Oz Rittner as Country Coordinator for Israel

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National Moth Week is pleased to welcome Oz Rittner of Tel Aviv University in Israel as the newest NMW country coordinator. Oz is the Lepidoptera collection manager at the Steinhardt Museum at the Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies at the university. He started and maintains Israel-nature-site.com and has been an NMW partner since the …

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LepiMAP – The Atlas of African Lepidoptera, Guest post by Megan Loftie-Eaton (LepiMAP project coordinator)

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Mapping how species ranges are changing is key to proper biodiversity conservation and can act as an early warning system if a species might be in trouble. Is a species’ range expanding or contracting? If we don’t know this how can we make proper decisions regarding its conservation? This is where LepiMAP comes in. …

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Submit Your Moth Sightings to BAMONA

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Whether you’re new to mothing or an experienced moth-er, you can contribute to science by submitting photos and information on your sightings to Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA), a partner of National Moth Week. BAMONA is a unique, well-respected, and established database of verified butterfly and moth sighting records. If you take part …

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French NMW Partner Shares Love of Hawk Moths With World

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Écrit en Français en bas Jean Haxaire, a senior professor of Earth and Life Sciences at Bordeaux University and Agen (high school) in France, loves hawk moths so much that he has created a new website dedicated to the Sphingidae moth family accessible in both his native French and in English. National Moth Week welcomes …

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NMW partner – The Israeli Facebook group ‘Arthropods, Reptiles and Amphibian Photography’

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The Israeli Facebook photography group, Arthropods, Reptiles and Amphibian Photography, (צילום פרוקי-רגליים, חרקים, זוחלים ודו-חיים) is one of Israel’s most popular Facebook groups for nature photography, with over 6,300 members and dozens of posts every day. The group not only focuses on the aesthetics of photography, but also on citizen science. Here we document sightings …

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NMW new partner – National Geographic’s Great Nature Project

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National Geographic’s Great Nature Project is an ongoing initiative that encourages direct exploration of nature by sharing photos of biodiversity from anywhere in the world. We especially encourage photos to be shared along with standardized information about what was observed, where, and when so the records can be used for scientific inquiry. The Great Nature …

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Submit moth observations to Encyclopedia Of Life

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Encyclopedia of Life is a website dedicated to providing global access to knowledge about life on earth. EOL is a collaborative effort among scientists, citizen scientists and the general public to share millions of pages of information and multimedia about species, including moths! NMW participants can share photos of moths from their events with EOL’s Flickr …

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