User:HKmoths
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Here to help with Lepidoptera pages.
My experience in Lepidoptera research and fieldwork include:
- U.K. (1981 - 1996)
- field survey work, Warwickshire & Suffolk (main focii), Dorset, Somerset, Norfolk, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cornwall, Perthshire
- voluntary moth officer for Butterfly Conservation [1] (Suffolk Branch [2], 1993 - 1996)
- committee member of Butterfly Conservation's W.Midlands [3] (1990 - 1993) and Suffolk (1993 - 1996) branches
- Hong Kong (1982 - 1987, 1994, 1997 to present)
- co-founder, life member and first chairman of Hong Kong Lepidopterists' Society [4]
- maintaining the Moths of Hong Kong [5] website (from 1997 to present)
- Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong's [6] Department of Ecology & Biodiversity [7], studying the moths of Hong Kong. [8]
institutions visited for the comparative identification of HK species during this study were:- The Natural History Museum, London;
- National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.;
- Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes [9], Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa;
- California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco;
- Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i.
- moth survey work in Hong Kong in 1994 and from December 1996 to present
will add a little more relevent info as time permits.