How aposematic and cryptic coloration may affect moth flight
phenology, population genetic structure, and rates of evolution.

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

Discover Life's Mothing project's scientific objectives are to
understand how weather patterns, urbanization, latitude, and
other factors affect moth communities.  Since 2010, participants
have photographed over 500,000 insects at 22 study sites in the
eastern United States and Costa Rica, documenting nightly
differences in the seasonal activity and abundance of 3,000+
moth species across years and sites.  My talk will focus on
how coloration affects flight patterns in aposematic and
cryptic species, showing how the former have more synchronized
flights with sharper peaks.  I will discuss how this newly
discovered phenomenon may affect the genetic structure of
populations along a latitudinal gradient, leading to possible
"temporal vicariance" between northern and southern populations
of aposematic species that have more that one flight per year.
For details see http://www.discoverlife.org/moth .