Acknowledgments
Regional Coordinators
Our volunteer regional coordinators are central to the BAMONA project. Led by renowned lepidopterist Dr. Paul A. Opler, these experts provide valuable quality control for data collection by reviewing each sighting before addition to the database.
Citizen Scientists
Citizen scientists are public participants in scientific research. Listed below are the usernames of citizen scientists registered with this site. If you have contributed sightings via e-mail in the past, you will need to create an account to and let us know so we can match your sightings to your username and add you below. New to the site? Learn how you can get involved.
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Photographers
The BAMONA project is indebted to the many photographers who share their photographs with us. Many of their names are below, and the numbers in parentheses are the numbers of images each has displayed on the site. Find out how to share your photographs.
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Infrastructure
The BAMONA project would not exist without hardware, software, security, and infrastructure support provided from the Big Sky Institute (BSI) at Montana State University from 2004-2011.
Data Providers
In addition to submissions from citizen scientists and individual lepidopterists, the BAMONA database houses data from a number of collections, including:
- The Wedge Entomological Collection
- The Lepidopterists' Society Season Summary Database (ongoing additions)
- Natural History Museum at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center in Presque Isle State Park (Erie County, Pennsylvania)
- Vermont Butterfly Survey
- Connecticut Butterfly Atlas Project
- Notes on the Butterflies of North Carolina Database
Glossary Terms
The following sources are used to develop the glossary and species accounts, with permission from the authors:
- Covell, C.V., Jr. 2005. A field guide to moths of eastern North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, VA.
- Opler, P.A. and A.B. Wright. 1999. Peterson field guide to western butterflies. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.
- Powell, J.A. and P.A. Opler. 2009. Moths of western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley.
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