Butterflies and Moths of North America

collecting and sharing data about Lepidoptera

Acknowledgments

The Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) project is indebted to thousands of individual citizen scientists who participate in data collection and review. Nearly all of the sighting data and photographs available on the BAMONA website are submitted by volunteers who take the time to share and document their sightings. Volunteer regional coordinators are responsible for data quality control and general scientific oversight, and many coordinators put in hundreds of hours of volunteer time each year. Kelly Lotts and Thomas Naberhaus develop the database and website, coordinate data compilation, develop policies, answer questions from users, and facilitate the work of the coordinators.

Our volunteer regional coordinators are central to the BAMONA project. These experts provide valuable quality control for data collection by reviewing each submitted sighting before it is published in the database. Below is a list of all active and former coordinators. We can always use more help! Find out how you can become a coordinator.


aahewetson
Aboover
Alan Harvey
alchem30
Allen B
AllenRatz
anthony.thomas
apan123
azukoff
A_baldini
BarbSendelbach
BGilley
bradensing
CA Ivy
chalicerae
chantalhamelkropf
charleseharp
Charlie Doggett
Chip Krilowicz
Chuck Ely
coreyhusic
curtis.lehman
danaross
David Moskowitz
davidwdroppers
davidwright
dbruce
ddodd
Dennis Forsythe
Dennis Schlicht
designandsound13
dgarrigan
Don Tangren
Doug Taron
drerbium
Dwayne Badgero
elsner
Emily Geest
Eric Wood
Ezra Schwartzberg
finatic
Firefly21
geraldfauske
geraldswegner
gganweiler
H.D. McGuinness
Harry Pavulaan
harrylegrand
Howell_Curtis
Ilona L.
Ironweed23
ishaan2009
Jack Connor
Jackie Miller
James F. Snyder
James Steen
jamesdurbin
Jane and John B...
jasondroberts
JasonPike1980
jbgrant
jdzadik
Jeff Trahan
jeffreybelth
Jim Eckert
Jim Edsall
jim.mason
jmgesell
Jo Roy
John Calhoun
John Saba
John van Dort
Josiah Gilbert
jwileyrains
J_Martineau
kellyrichers
Ken Childs
Ken Davenport
kent
Kent McFarland
kimgarwood
kking216
kmortensen
KyhlAustin
L Harmas
lawrencegall
legacy.verifier
leslie
lisald100
lorispencer
Lula Field
M. Reith
Mark Wheeler
mcduck
MidnightFlight
Mike Quinn
mikefisher
Mikelchap
mikereese
nathanbrockman
nick.grishin
Noel Mac Neil
Norbert Kondla
Ohio97
ondwing
owlbyr
Paul Prappas
paulopler
PDeGennaro
philipnott
Phillip E. Koenig
RaisingButterfl...
ray.stanford@st...
reutere
reyes.carmiii
richardhsmith
richardworth
Rick Henle
rickgillmore
rickypatterson
Robert Martin
rogerdowner
ron.royer
rosslayberry
Ryan St Laurent
S. J. Stedman
seth.feinberg
sharonstichter2
silkakempema
SophieD
Stephen G.
Steve Spomer
stevecary
stevekohler
stomlins701
Sue Gregoire
TeaKH
Tom Clark
Tom Middagh
vitaly charny
wayne13114
Will Kerling

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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
  • USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center county records dataset (contributors)

Glossary Terms and Life History Information

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.

Note that the text on this site cannot be reproduced without citing these sources.

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