Findings from Discover Life's Mothing Project

John Pickering, Discover Life and the University of Georgia
http://www.discoverlife.org/who/Pickering,_John.html

Discover Life's Mothing project aims to understand how weather,
geography, and other factors affect moth communities.  Since
2010 participants have photographed over 600,000 insects at 23
sites in the United States and Costa Rica, documenting nightly
activity of over 3,000 moth species.  My talk will focus on
(1) the accumulation of 1,283 species over time at a site
in Clarke County, Georgia, (2) resampling this site's
nightly observations to measure the impact of the lunar
cycle on flight activity, (3) bomb-pulse isotope data that
show some saturniids have multi-year pupa banks, and (4)
an analysis of when taxonomists described 30,000 African
and North American species with respect to higher taxa
and geography. 
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In addition to the above 20-minute talk on Saturday,
I would like to give a Discover Life training workshop
on Sunday afternoon entitled, "New moon discovery --
join us and efficiently document moths at a site near you."