User:HKmoths

Here to help with Lepidoptera pages.

My experience in Lepidoptera research and fieldwork include: will add a little more relevant info as time permits.
 * U.K. (1981 - 1996)
 * field survey work, Warwickshire & Suffolk (main focii), Dorset, Somerset, Norfolk, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Cornwall, Perthshire
 * voluntary moth officer for Butterfly Conservation (Suffolk Branch, 1993 - 1996)
 * committee member of Butterfly Conservation's W.Midlands (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
 * organised the First (South East) Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium, hosted by Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Hong Kong and held at Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre (now the Kadoorie Centre, the University of Hong Kong, Shek Kong, Hong Kong, 4th to 8th September 2006. (proceedings were published in December 2007). Attended, as organising committee member, the second (renamed as Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium) symposium in Penang, Malaysia (November 2008); ALCS3 in Coimbatore, India (October 2010); ALCS4 at Nankai University in Tianjin, China (June 2012); ALCS5 at The University of Hong Kong (December 2018) and ALCS6 hosted by Zoological Survey of India and held at Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jamshedpur and ZSI headquarters in Kolkata (September 2019). Papers were presented in ALCSs 3, 4 & 6, with posters presented at ALCSs 2 & 5.
 * maintaining the Moths of Hong Kong website (from 1997 to present)
 * Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong's Department of Ecology & Biodiversity (now Division of Ecology & Biodiversity), studying the moths of Hong Kong. institutions visited for the comparative identification of HK species during this study were:
 * Natural History Museum, London;
 * National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C.;
 * Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, 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
 * China (2004, 2005, 2009, 2012)
 * Hainan - Fieldwork in Yinggeling reserve, Baisha County, central Hainan in late August / early September 2005, in primary forest at around 1000m elevation and a village adjacent to the Yinggeling Nature Reserve, at around 350m elevation
 * Guangzhou - visited the South China Agricultural University Lepidoptera collection in May 2004
 * Tianjin - Species identification in the insect collection at Nankai University's Department of Biology (College of Life Sciences) in March 2009 and June 2012; contains some 300,000 Microlepidoptera specimens from China;
 * India (2010, 2017, 2019)
 * limited recreational fieldwork in the Western Ghats as part of the 3rd Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium (Bharathiar University (Coimbatore), Ooty, Doddabetta & Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary).
 * limited fieldwork at Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, leading the field moth-identification skills workshop component of the 6th Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium (hosted by the Zoological Survey of India)
 * limited fieldwork with ZSI in the Sundarbans, West Bengal.
 * workshop facilitator and course leader for "Practical Moth Recording" workshop organised by Punjabi Univeristy, Patiala, Punjab
 * Malaysia (2016, 2017, 2018)
 * workshop facilitator and course leader for field identification skills workshops at Fraser's Hill, Pahang, with some of the observations posted on iNaturalist
 * Singapore (2014, 2017)
 * workshop facilitator and course leader for "Practical Moth Recording" workshops organised by Nature Society Singapore's Butterfly Interest Group
 * South Africa (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2023)
 * limited recreational fieldwork in Kwazulu-Natal at Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, Mkuze Game Reserve, various sites in and around Durban, in the Drakensberg (Giant's Castle & Dragon Peaks (near Champagne Castle)) and Oribi Gorge, and also visited the Ruimsig Entomological Reserve near Johannesburg where the rare lycaenid Aloeides dentatis is found.