Moth Love Forum

[AdamWargon]

Although @paul_dennehy hasn’t posted in this topic, I thought you might enjoy something he recently wrote about Moth Love.

Paul has over 400,000 IDs, and as he noted, he has:

@paul_dennehy

been obsessed with moths since the 1990s when I was 8 years old

I found Paul’s story very inspiring, as it captures how much biodiversity is hiding right under our noses:

@paul_dennehy

One of my favorite stories was a moth collector who collected 100s of Coleophora in his suburban yard and sent them to the world’s expert to be dissected. They appeared to represent about 7 morphospecies, but upon dissection, it turned out there were dozens of cryptic species in the sample, and of all of them only about a fifth of them had published names. And this is in the Chicago suburbs in the most over-sampled country in the world.