PNW Moths

Pacific Northwest Moths

About this app

PNW Moths is an interactive identification key to the more than 1,200 moth species featured on the Pacific Northwest Moths website (pnwmoths.biol.wwu.edu). Designed for people with no prior knowledge of moth identification, the key narrows the list of possible species in response to responses users give to easy-to-understand questions about seasonality, location, size, and color patterns.

PNW Moths has photos of all of the species known from the region in the families Drepanidae, Uraniidae, Lasiocampidae, Saturniidae, Sphingidae, Notodontidae, Erebidae, Euteliidae, Nolidae, and Noctuidae, and is updated regularly in response to new discoveries.

PNW Moths allows users to record information and photos from moth observations to their mobile device and upload their observations to the PNW Moths app server, making it a terrific resource for students, educators, naturalists, and anyone else interested in identifying moths in this region.

Available only for Android.

Ratings and reviews

Does it work? From the homepage, I can only see a fully grayed out page - the color scheme covers up any content. It will allow you to take photos but it will not allow you to use a current photo, at least from what I can tell. The menu is non-existant; it simply shows a page that says "observations" but does not allow you to input anything. It also only accepts data for a moth, not a caterpillar, and will only display 20 results even if there are far more.

I was SO EXCITED to see there was a region specific app for lepidoptera, but the identification feature isn't working properly. I'm able to select all the options available, but the results don't show up and are unclickable.

This app is coded wrong or something, the menus overlap or disappear completely. Most buttons don't work and you have to zoom in and out to see anything. I should never have to zoom in or out to access an apps basic functions