Butterflies and Moths of North America

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BAMONA wins award

Submitted by BAMONA on Fri, 2011-06-17 16:01

Butterflies and Moths of North America has been selected as one of the MARS Best Free Reference Web Sites of 2011.

BAMONA is one of 25 web sites to be recognized by MARS this year as an outstanding site for reference information. Other recipients include Google's Translator, WikiLeaks, The ICUN Red List of Threatened Species, and the Public Library of Science (PLOS). It is an honor to be in the company of these giants.

MARS is the "MARS: Emerging Technologies in Reference" section of the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association. See the full list of MARS Best of Free Reference Web Sites of 2011.

Thank you to all of our volunteer coordinators and submitters for your enduring support of this project.

Milestones for BAMONA

Submitted by BAMONA on Mon, 2011-05-23 13:59

Since our January 2011 launch of the new and improved Butterflies and Moths of North America site, more than 2,000 individuals have signed up accounts, and over 10,000 individual butterfly and moth sightings have been submitted to the project. Thanks to the tireless efforts of volunteer coordinators, more than 8,000 sightings have been verified and added to the database in these last four months. Thank you to all submitters, volunteers, and coordinators!

Butterfly conservation and management short course

Submitted by BAMONA on Thu, 2011-05-12 14:25

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) invite you to attend a Butterfly Conservation and Management Short Course in Klamath Falls, Oregon. This full-day training will provide an overview of butterfly biology and identification, threats, and appropriate habitat management. In all of these modules, the emphasis will be on at-risk butterflies in the Klamath Falls area, including the mardon skipper, Leona's little blue, and monarch. By the end of the day, participants will have the skills to begin implementing effective habitat management and conservation efforts on butterflies.

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Butterfly Exhibit at Estes Park Museum

Submitted by BAMONA on Mon, 2011-04-25 15:58

The Estes Park Museum (Colorado) is hosting an exhibit called "Fluttering Butterflies: From the Net of Dr. Wiest." The exhibit includes a selection from the collection of Estes Park’s first mayor, Dr. Roy Wiest, and runs April 22, 2011 through April 17, 2012. Admission is free. Find more information about the exhibit and programs about butterflies at www.estes.org/museum.

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Thank you

Submitted by BAMONA on Wed, 2011-03-16 14:03

Since our launch of the new site on January 10, 2011, more than 800 individual citizen scientists have created accounts, and over 5,300 sightings have been submitted. Thank you for your support of this project! We also want to extend a hearty thank-you to our regional coordinators, who have been working tirelessly to review each submission.

Lep course in Arizona

Submitted by BAMONA on Sat, 2011-03-12 11:35

Lep Course in Southeast Arizona
August 14-22, 2011

Held at the SouthWest Research Station (SWRS) in the Chirichahua Mountains in SE Arizona (a 2 1/2 hour drive from Tucson), the focus of the lep course is to train graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and serious citizen-scientists in the classification and identification of adult lepidoptera and their larvae.

Topics to be covered include an extensive introduction into adult and larval morphology with a focus on taxonomically-important traits, extensive field work on both adults and larvae, collecting and curatoral techniques, genitalic dissection and preparation, larval classification, use (and abuse) of DNA bar coding, and general issues in lepidoptera systematics, ecology, and evolution.

For more information, visit http://www.lepcourse.org.

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