Monitoring moth communities to understand environmental health and insect life history strategies. 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. Novel results show how body size of a species can change between generations and years; how smaller moths are relatively less active than larger moths at colder temperatures, and how moths with larvae that feed on lichens may be more detrimentally affected by urbanization than other species. This talk will focus on life history strategies and how insect species may respond to climate change. Mothing's educational objective is to involve the public in all aspects of the project. We are developing Moth Math to teach students how to collect and analyze real-time moth data. For details see http://www.discoverlife.org/moth .