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]
  • organised the First South East Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium, hosted by Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden [5], Hong Kong and held at Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre [6], Shek Kong, Hong Kong, 4th to 8th September 2006. (proceedings scheduled for publication in September 2007)
  • maintaining the Moths of Hong Kong [7] website (from 1997 to present)
  • Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong's [8] Department of Ecology & Biodiversity [9], studying the moths of Hong Kong. [10]
    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 [11], 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.