My website

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:39 pm

Just wanted to let you all know about my butterfly and moth website. It should be ready by end of May. Any way, here is what it contains:

This is a site of moths and butterfiles of around the world, from anywhere in the world I take pics.

No frames, just inline frames where moth and butterfly pics are videwed.

When you click on "Photo" you will be brung to a tabled A-Z list of all butterfly and moth superfamilies anywhere in the world.

When you click on say "Nymphilidae" you will be brought to a page with the family information links to subfamilies within that group and any links to images and info I have on that butterfy from the group.

In subfamilies you will see a list of genus when you click "click here to see a list of genus". These link to wikipedia. Any links to food plants link to wikipedia as well.

after all these super and sub family pages are completed all I have then to do is take pics of butterflies and moths and find which family-sub family they belong to and write about them and link them to the family pages.

In these pages will be images and videos I take myself and some that are contributed by some people I want them to take images.

I also have a section called "unusual moths of the world" and this has things like "half male, half female" "moths with strained spots that form lines" or other oddities that sometimes appear.

Next, we have a section called "breeding" and this has information on breeding butterflies and moths from "Egg to Adult" and what equiptment you'd need to breed them.

I have a section called "geographic locations" and when you click link you are brought to a map, like this one: http://img.search.com/thumb/4/4b/Palear ... arctic.png

only much larger and it has hotspots on e.g. "palearctic" or "neotropical region" you click and it will bring you to a page with information on the different areas e.g. mountains, vallies, jungles etc... that place has and what types of moths and butterflies you are likley to see in each location.

I have another section on photographic moths and butterflies in the wild. This will explain digital camera photography and sho how to get great shots.

I also have a section called moth traps and this will show you how to create sucessful moth traps and the various ones that can be used.

Other sections: external Links, gutesbook, Seasons to find

Anything you would like me to add (information) please say.

what do you think. The site contains so far: 77 Pages with 40-50 still not created. (Dont worry, its really easy to navigate)

Post by **Pete Eeles** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:04 am

Hi Dave,

This sounds like a very ambitious project given that there around 18,000 species of butterflies in the world, and a lot more moths!

Some thoughts:

1. I think you need to look at similar websites and then decide how you differentiate yourself. Two that immediately come to mind are http://www.learnboutbutterflies.com and http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/intro.html (see http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/in ... index.html for an example of a genus page).

2. "Unusual moths ..." etc. would be better called "Variation" since a) this applies to butterflies too and b) needs to cover forms, subspecies and aberrations.

Overall, if your website is intended to be comprehensive, then I don't think it will ever get finished and maybe something with less scope would be better. For example, there aren't many (any?) sites that focus on breeding butterflies and moths.

Cheers,

- Pete

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:01 am

My site is ambitious but will get finished. When the information is written on all the families and submalilies - not specific butterflies and moths, then I can just add information about the butterflies and moths. I take photos of them and add it plus information on it to the site. You'll understand when you see it.

Like http://www.leps.it but with imformation as well as pics and info on the families and sub families they come from.

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:11 pm

Actually, that unusual species would be good as abberations. Does anyone have any abberations of:

Large copper - is there any?
Small tortoiseshell - is there any? Like to know.

Roger Gibbons · Post by **Roger Gibbons** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:55 pm

I think the answer is yes. Here are the links to the pages on the Cockayne database (which you can access for other species http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cur ... /cockayne/) for Large Copper and Small Tortoiseshell.

Click on “show all images” at the bottom of the pages to see all forms on one page. If you’re going to include all aberrations, you could have a very large website!

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cur ... IES=dispar

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/jdsml/research-cur ... ES=urticae

Dave McCormick · Post by **Dave McCormick** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:45 pm

Very large? yes. Not to worry I have a 100GB webspace and 1000GB bandwidth on the FTP I am using. I am safe with loads of content.