Moth
Diversity in Fundy National Park
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:
- 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,
- to give illustrations of the species as an aid to identification,
and
- to present some biological information of the species in each
of the 14 families - the Family
Accounts.
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