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07/18/2025

National Moth Week begins tomorrow! Let the mothing citizen science adventures begin! 🦋 💚

Make your plans for National Moth Week!
July 19-27, 2025

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07/16/2025

MOTHS MATTER And so Does The Rest of Life
With Dr. Roget Kendrick

08:00 UTC Sunday 20th July;
Live on the South Asia Microlepidoptera Facebook Group

Information at:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/microlepsasia

07/14/2025

06/18/2025

Project Noah continues our annual collab with National Moth Week for another exciting summer of mothing! Project Noah works with National Moth Week to help amplify global awareness and education about the ecological importance of moths - an often overlooked insect category that play a key role in ecosystems!

Mothing is the practice of attracting, observing, photographing, identifying and documenting moths for enjoyment or scientific study. National Moth Week is an annual, global event that invites people of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the mothing hobby, by sharing photos of moths they find for citizen science.

The special 2025 Moth Week Patch has been designed, stitched up and activated! Project Noah community members may earn this special once-a-year patch by submitting a moth photo into the Moths of the World Mission from now up until September 1, 2025.

This summer, Moth Week is scheduled for July 19-27.

Head on over to the National Moth Week website to learn more about their program and register your mothing events.

National Moth Week:
https://nationalmothweek.org

Moths of the World Project Noah Mission:
https://projectnoah.org/missions/moths-world

More about Project Noah & National Moth Week Collab:
https://projectnoah.org/stories/national-moth-week-project-noah-citizen-science-collaboration

05/08/2025

Ranger Scott Frazier writes a detailed Nature Story about the diverse wildlife and species found in Indonesia!
https://projectnoah.org/stories/wildlife-indonesia

Photo credit: Bornean Orangutan photographed by greenhillsumatra
https://projectnoah.org/spottings/bornean-orangutan-12

04/22/2025

Though it’s the only chameleon species in Botswana, the Flap-necked Chameleon (Chameleo dilepis) does occur in other sub- Saharan countries. I was lucky enough to spot this individual walking along the ground at Tautona Lodge in eastern Botswana. They normally live in small trees and shrubs but they will descend to the ground and are often seen crossing roads in the morning. Chameleons can be extremely difficult to locate so I was beyond happy when I spotted this guy all on my own. With a total length of 43cm (16”), they are one of the larger species of chameleon. Thankfully due to its wide range and relative abundance, it’s not under any conservation threats.
This post will be my final one in my collaboration with Project Noah, though I might be back in the future. If you liked this post I urge you to go back and check out all twenty posts that I shared. I want to thank for giving me the opportunity to share some photos and stories from Namibia and Botswana. To see more of the great things I encountered in Africa and in the world beyond, follow me 🇧🇼

04/22/2025

Today is ! The 2025 Theme for Earth Day is Our Power, Our Planet, with a focus on global adoption of clean, renewable energy.

On , Project Noah is featuring our newly created and designed Species webpages! Project Noah Species Pages now feature biological classification information, a continent range, a featured spotting, and automatically generated spottings from the community!

Learn more about Earth Day! https://www.earthday.org
Learn more about Project Noah's new Species sections: https://projectnoah.org

04/21/2025

Found throughout southern Africa and into east Africa, the Giant Bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus) can attain lengths of 23 cm (9”) and weigh up to 1.4kgs (3.1lbs). They are voracious carnivores, eating almost anything that will fit in their mouths, including insects, rodents, small reptiles, fish, birds and even other amphibians. They live in temporary formed pools, usually in wooded savannah. I spotted about a half a dozen of them in the huge puddle that formed at the entrance to Tautona Lodge in eastern Botswana. I was actually surprised at how much it rained. The video clips shows the giant puddle forming, just in front of my room. Males call and fight during the day in these large shallow pools. Females deposit their eggs in these pools and males guard them, even going as far as to dig channels to guide them to deeper water so they don’t dry out. From recent nature explorations of Namibia and Botswana.

04/21/2025

The Yellow Pansy (Junonia hierta cebrene) is an absolutely striking butterfly, a few of them would feed outside my room at Tautona Lodge near Ghanzi in eastern Botswana. In the family Nymphalidae, they are found in Africa and Asia. This sub species is found in the drier parts of Africa and Arabia. From recent nature explorations of Namibia and Botswana. 🇧🇼

04/19/2025

A large attractive caterpillar of the beautiful Marbled Emperor Moth (Heniocha dyops) wandering around the grounds of Tautona Lodge near Ghanzi in eastern Botswana. Found throughout eastern and Southern Africa, it’s a moth in the family Saturniidae. Larva feed on multiple acacia species. From recent nature explorations of Namibia and Botswana. 🇧🇼

04/18/2025

Found in eastern and southern Africa, these Giant Jewel Bugs (Sternocera orissa) were found on the grounds of Tautona Lodge near Ghanzi in eastern Botswana. Living up to their name, they can attain lengths of 45 mm. Adults can be seen flying clumsily around Acacia flowers. Females dump very large eggs on the ground or bury them in soil. Larva feed on roots. From recent nature explorations of Namibia and Botswana. 🇧🇼

04/17/2025

The genius Heliocopris contains some of the largest dung beetles in the world. Of the 47 species found in Africa, I’m not exactly sure which one this is. They were fairly common at Tautona Lodge near Ghanzi in eastern Botswana. Giant dung beetles burrow below or beside fresh dung. They use it and soil to make broad balls, which has one egg each inside. Some is kept as food. Until the young emerge, females will remain in the nest. From recent nature explorations of Namibia and Botswana. 🇧🇼