National Moth Week celebrates the beauty, life cycles, and habitats of moths. “Moth-ers” of all ages and abilities were encouraged to learn about, observe, and document moths in their backyards, parks, and neighbourhoods in and around Christ University, Central campus from 23 to 28 Jul7, 2018. It was a unique opportunity to contribute scientific data about moths. The students of Green Army led by Dr P U Antoney, Professor, Dept of Life Sciences has actively taken part in the celebrations of National Moth Week, 2018. During the week,interested students went around the campus in the late evenings searching for moths, clicking photos if possible and uploading them on biodiversity portals, from where they can be identified. This was another citizen science initiative, through which a large amount of data on diversity, range, habitat and other behavioral aspects of moths can be retrieved. This could prove to be important data for researchers and conservationists.Through partnerships with major online biological data depositories, NMW participants helped to map the moth distribution.
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