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 …
What is BAMONA? The Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) project is ambitious effort to collect and provide access to quality-controlled data about butterflies and moths. The project is hosted by the Butterfly and Moth Information Network and is directed by Kelly Lotts and Thomas Naberhaus. The goal is to fill the needs of …
Crinkleroot “…was born in a tree and raised by bees!”. He can speak caterpillar, moth, and butterfly, all at the same time. And he is our new friend and supporter. Jim Arnosky, the author who created Crinkleroot, gave us permission to use images and text from the book:”CRINKELROOT GUIDE TO KNOWING BUTTERFLIES & MOTHS” on …
Seabrooke Leckie is a freelance biologist and writer living in rural eastern Ontario. She holds a B.Sc.H. in Zoology and has worked on field research contracts in many parts of the continent, from California to Québec, British Columbia to Ohio, as well as her home province of Ontario. She discovered moths quite by accident one …
Discover Life‘s mission is to assemble and share knowledge in order to improve education, health, agriculture, economic development, and conservation throughout the world. We provide free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature’s wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from a growing, interactive encyclopedia …
Bug_girl has a PhD in Entomology. Her bug research involves using pheromones to try to control insect populations without pesticides. Essentially, she makes male bugs horny, and then prevents them from mating. (Please don’t extrapolate from that more that is warranted.) After a decade or so as a professor, she decided to jump the academic …
Published on WILDNEWJERSEY at 11/7/2011 by Dave Moskowitz This is my first column for Wild New Jersey and I am very excited that I was asked to contribute. I hope to focus future columns on the incredible moths around us. With that theme in mind, I am very excited to introduce a new project that is underway …
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