Description
National Moth Week is a global citizen science project established in 2012 by Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission in New Jersey. It encourages everyone to learn about, observe, and document moths in their backyards, parks, and neighborhoods. It is held every year during the last full week of July. Since its inception, events have been registered annually in a total of more than 80 countries. India is estimated to be home to more than 10,000 moth species (Sondhi and Kunte, 2014). However, moth taxonomy and distribution are relatively poorly studied compared to other ‘popular’ taxa, including their cousins, the butterflies, both globally and in India. Moth studies in India have mostly been centered around biodiversity hotspots. As such, there is a lack of information on moth diversity in urban and suburban areas. Taking the National Moth Week 2022 as an opportunity, Nature Mates organized a 3-day public mothing event at 3 different locations in the Kolkata Metropolitan Region, with the purposes of spreading awareness about moths, promoting citizen science as well as adding to the knowledge of moth diversity of Kolkata Metropolitan Region. Moth screens were set up at each of the 3 locations between 26-28th July 2022. The locations were chosen such that they span the length of the region and improve the geographical coverage of the study. The days were selected keeping in mind the lunar phase (New Moon), so as to increase the chances of attracting moths to the screen. Participants observed and photographed the moths encountered on the sheet and took notes. Photographs were uploaded to citizen science portals. The moths were identified and the number of individuals were counted and listed to create this dataset.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 59 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Chowdhury P, Dey R, Das N, Pal A, Paul A, Mazumdar A, Roy S, Baidya S (2022): Documentation of various Moth species during National Moth Week 2022 across Kolkata, West Bengal. v1.4. Nature Mates-Nature Club. Dataset/Occurrence. https://cloud.gbif.org/asia/resource?r=nmw_2022_nmnc&v=1.4
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Nature Mates-Nature Club. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 0e686349-fb60-4bd6-b4fd-4e0a181dbd14. Nature Mates-Nature Club publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
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Occurrence; NMW 2022; Moths of Kolkata; Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
24 Parganas South, 24 Parganas North, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [22.348, 88.259], North East [22.562, 88.525] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
The dataset includes observation of different types of Moths.
| Order | Lepidoptera |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2022-07-26 / 2022-07-28 |
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Sampling Methods
Moth screens were set up on 3 consecutive nights at 3 different locations in the Kolkata Metropolitan Region. Details of light used: Day 1 (Neel Kuthi) - UV CFL bulb Day 2 (Eco Park) - UV CFL bulb, Mercury Vapor bulb Day 3 (Banabitan) - Mercury Vapor bulb
| Study Extent | Studies were done on moth screens set up in Neel Kuthi, Eco Park and Banabitan during the monsoon season. |
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Method step description:
- All the listed moths were observed, photographed and field notes were taken. Photographs were uploaded to a citizen science portal, iNaturalist, and the National Moth Week ‘project’ hosted therein (National Moth Week 2022: India · iNaturalist). Identification of the moths were done to the extent possible, on field and with the help of photos, citizen science forums and internet resources like the Moths of India website (http://www.mothsofindia.org/).
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| Alternative Identifiers | 0e686349-fb60-4bd6-b4fd-4e0a181dbd14 |
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