Site Credits

Web Team

Principal Investigators:

Lars Crabo and Rich Zack (Washington State University)
Merrill Peterson (Western Washington University)

Project Manager:

Merrill Peterson

Site Editors:

Lars Crabo
Paul Hammond
Merrill Peterson
Jon Shepard
Rich Zack

Taxonomic Committee:

Lars Crabo
Paul Hammond
Don Lafontaine
Tomas Mustelin
Chris Schmidt
Jon Shepard

Programmers:

Pre-launch

Post-launch

Nolan Ainsworth
Matte Bailey
Galen Bigley
Forrest Henry
Nathan Tate

Designer:

Jennifer Anderson

System Administrators:

Todd Epps
Jim Long

Database Administrators:

Design Team

Jennifer Anderson
Philip Bjorge
Lars Crabo
Merrill Peterson
Jon Shepard

Species Accounts

Lars Crabo (Principal Author)
Paul Hammond (Life Histories)

Additional Text

Philip Bjorge (About the Project)
Lars Crabo (Glossary; Moth Collecting; Moth Facts)
Melanie Davis (About the Images)
Merrill Peterson (About the Data; About the Images; About the Key; About the Project; Home Page; Site Credits)
Jon Shepard (About the Data)
Rich Zack (FAQs; Glossary; Related Sites)
Danielle Crow, Jesse Prelesnik, and Catherine Shelton (External Hyperlinks to Related Sites)

Copy Editors

Lars Crabo
Paul Hammond
Cecily Kowitz
Ryssa Parks
Merrill Peterson
Jon Shepard
Tyson Stallings

Databasing

Jon Shepard (Principal Databaser)
Libby Avis
Lars Crabo (LGCC)
Melanie Davis (WWU)
David Droppers (DWD)
Ian Foley (MDA)
Warren Hellman (WSDA)
James Marra (WSDA)
Kaylin Mayhew (WWU)
Tomas Mustelin
W. Dean Nicholson (WDN)
Merrill Peterson (MAP)
Chris Schmidt (Acronicta Data)
Ron Sleeter (ODAC)
Landon Udo (WSDA)
Dick Wilson
Richard Worth (ODAC)
Rich Zack (WSU - Hanford & Saddle Mtn. NWR surveys)

Data Editors

Philip Bjorge
Graeme Campbell
Lars Crabo
Alex Gomes
Paul Hammond
Jon Huddleston
Merrill Peterson
Jon Shepard
Tyson Stallings
Carol Yoon

Photo Editors

Philip Bjorge
Alec Blume
Graeme Campbell
Lars Crabo
Melanie Davis
Jocelyn Gill
Morgan Gingerich
Paul Hammond
John Huddleston
Jamie Latham
Kaylin Mayhew
Meghan Nelson
Merrill Peterson
Sarah Pongon
Catherine Shelton
Jon Shepard
Tyson Stallings
Jessica Stanley
Hillary Thalmann

Specimen Loans for Photos

Lars Crabo (LGCC; Principal Specimen Source)
Dave Grimaldi, Christine Johnson, and Tam Nguyen (AMNH)
Rick Hoebeke (CUIC)
Peter J. Landolt
Chris Marshall (OSAC)
Frank Merickel (WFBM)
Tomas Mustelin
Merrill Peterson (WWU, MAP)
Dana Ross (DAR)
Jon Shepard (JHS)
Richard Worth (ODAC)
Rich Zack (WSU)

In addition, Don Lafontaine and Jocelyn Gill (CNC) provided photographs of specimens of several rare species, including some for which only the holotypes are known.

Identification Key (including PNWMoths App)

Merrill Peterson (Principal Key Editor)
Tyson Stallings (Key Design)
Melanie Davis (Key Editor)
Jordan Birnel (PNWMoths App Developer)
Graeme Campbell (Key Editor)
Jason Cook (PNWMoths App Developer)
Kenji Crenshaw (PNWMoths App Developer)
Liam Gleeson (PNWMoths App Developer)
Cecily Kowitz (Key Editor)
Kaylin Mayhew (Key Editor)
Erik McFarland (Key Editor)
Emiko Peterson-Yoon (Beta Tester)
Erik Peterson-Yoon (Beta Tester)
Jesse Prelesnik (Key Editor)
Elizabeth Rothwell (Key Editor)
Sebastian Schaad (Key Editor)
Hillary Thalmann (Key Editor)
Carol Yoon (Beta Tester)

Acknowledgments

This open-source website is the product of a collaborative effort involving many institutions and individuals. In particular, we are grateful to the following institutions for providing access to their collections and/or databases (*collections for which we have >500 records; **collections for which we have >5,000 records):

American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
*Canadian National Collection (CNC)
**M.T. James Entomological Collection (WSU)
McChord Air Force Base (JBLM)
*Montana Department of Agriculture (MDA)
*Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODAC)
**Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC)
O.J. Smith Museum of Natural History (CID)
*Royal British Columbia Museum (RBCM)
Strickland Museum, University of Alberta (UASM)
United States National Museum (USNM)
**University of British Columbia (UBC)
Utah State University (EMUS)
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA)
*Western Washington University (WWU)
**William F. Barr Museum, University of Idaho (WFBM)

In addition, the following individuals have generously provided data from and/or access to their private collections of specimens and/or photographs:

*Libby Avis
Mark Cassidy
**Lars Crabo (LGCC)
John Davis
Melanie Davis
David Droppers
Renny Greenmun
Crispin S. Guppy (CSG)
*W. Dean Nicholson
Rita O'Clair
Gary Peters
Merrill Peterson
*Donald A. Rolfs (DAR)
**Jon Shepard (JHS)
*Dennis Strenge (DLSC)
Dick Wilson

We are deeply grateful to the open source computing community for advice and code that has been integrated into this site.

This material is based upon work supported by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, via National Science Foundation grants DBI-0846925 (to WWU) and DBI-0847728 (to WSU). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. In addition, we acknowledge the support of Chris Loggers, Wildlife Biologist, Colville National Forest, for funding survey work by one of the site editors (JHS), which helped fill distributional gaps for many species. We also thank the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs at Western Washington University for a Project Development Award to Merrill Peterson that supported the development of a pilot version of this website. Kailey Kimball and Matt Fisher assisted with the development of the pilot version.