Why fly now?  Photographing moths at porch lights helps us
understand their biology and potential environmental threats.

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

Discover Life's Mothing project is studying how weather
patterns, urbanization, and other other factors affect insects.
Participants have photographed over 500,000 insects in 
North America and Costa Rica, documenting nightly differences
in the activity of over 3,000 species across years and sites.
Novel results show how body size of a species can change;
how smaller moths are relatively less active than larger moths
at colder temperatures; how moths with larvae that feed
on lichens are detrimentally affected by urbanization.  This
talk will focus on flight seasonality, diapause, pupa banks,
latitude, and climate change.  We wish to involve the public
in the project.  We are developing Moth Math to teach
students how to collect and analyze real-time moth data.
There is a wondrous diversity of over 2,700 moth species
in Georgia.  Use your cell phone to help us find and map 
the dark dozen!  For details see www.discoverlife.org/moth .