Why fly now? Documenting insect phenology and abundance helps us understand their biology and potential environmental threats. John Pickering, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia http://www.discoverlife.org/who/Pickering,_John.html Discover Life's Mothing project is studying how weather, urbanization, and other other factors affect insects. Participants have taken 600,000 photographs in North America and Costa Rica, documenting nightly differences in the activity of over 3,000 moth and other 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. We are developing Moth Math to teach students how to collect and analyze real-time data. There are over 2,700 moth species in Georgia. Use your cell phone to help us find them and map the dark dozen! For details see www.discoverlife.org/moth .