David Wagner – one of our sponsors and the author of Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History – recently published a journal article on moth decline in the Northeastern United States in News of the Lepidopterists’ Society. This paper joins several out of the UK (Thomas 2005; Conrad et al …
National Moth Week (www.nationalmothweek.org) is only 1 day away! Thanks to Fran R. for a suggestion to reach out to the Nevada State Entomologist because his agency (NVDA) is now running two light nights next week in Elko County making registered locations in 49 states! Where are the North Dakota moth’ers? Registrations are now coming …
National Moth Week has teamed up with leading nature-writers to give participants a unique opportunity to win a signed copy of their books. Click here for details. A list and information of the books was published here [and see a list below]. We recently obtained a copy of WJ Holland’s that will also be offered …
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John Himmelman is a naturalist who makes his living as an author and illustrator. While most of his 70+ books are for children, he also writes books for adults on various topics of natural history. His first in this genre was “Discovering Moths; Nighttime Jewels In Your Own Backyard”, published by Down East Books. The …
I couldn’t decide how to start this blog post, so I turned to Google for help. I started by asking “what is a blog”, and this is what Google informed me: “A blog is a Web site containing the writer’s or group of writers’ own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links.” …
On Thursday night, the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission (www.friendsebec.com) welcomed Seabrooke Leckie to the East Brunswick Cultural Arts Center as part of her east coast book tour. Seabrooke is the co-author of the amazing new Peterson Field Guide to the Moths of Eastern North America and this was her only book tour …
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 …
Donna Brunet has combined an educational background in environmental history and entomology into a full-time career as a free-lance photographer specializing in insect photographs. Her images are of wild, free-flying insects with the exception of a few moths collected at lights. She is currently completing work as the author and primary photographer for a new …
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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