Fundy National Park in the southwest corner of New Brunswick is part of the Fundy Model Forest. For a four year period (1994-1997), a cooperative research program has been conducted there on moth species diversity by Dr. A.W. Thomas ( Biodiversity Network, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, and Dr. D. Clay (Heritage Canada, Fundy National Park, Alma).

We have concentrated our efforts on the larger species of moths (the macromoths) that are classified in 14 families of the insect order Lepidoptera (the butterflies and moths). To date we have identified 626 moth species in our targeted 14 families.

Our goals for these web pages are:

1. to present a checklist of the moth species occurring in Fundy National Park and the immediately adjacent forests that together form part of the Greater Fundy Ecosystem,
2. to give illustrations of the species as an aid to identification, and
3. to present some biological information of the species in each of the 14 families - the Family Accounts.