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"Researchers and citizen scientists will, for the first time, tag and track
10,000 bogong moths as they travel hundreds of kilometres from the Australian
Alps to breeding grounds across the country’s south-east.
The massive moth-tagging project was modelled on Monarch Watch, a citizen
science program that has traced the migration of monarch butterflies across
North America over decades. Both species undertake long-distance journeys, with
butterflies travelling by day and bogong moths by night.
A team of scientists and volunteers will next week travel to Mount Kosciuszko
to begin attaching numbered paper tags – each the size of a piece of confetti –
to 10,000 moths using eyelash glue.
“It’s low-tech, high-effort tagging, where you put a little sticker on an
individual moth and see if you can catch it again,” said Dr Kate Umbers, an
associate professor in zoology at Western Sydney University and the managing
director of Invertebrates Australia.
For bogong moths, it is “the very first time this has ever been tried”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
