I enjoy giving talks and leading moth nights Here's my schedule for 2026:

• March 13: talk at Nature London
• May 24: morning opening of moth traps at the Huron Fringe Birding Festival (Port Elgin area -- see schedule and program)
• May 24: moth night at Owen Sound Arboretum (9 pm to 11:15 pm), with opening of traps at 7 am the next morning. See Owen Sound Field Naturalists website.
• June 6 and 7: Pelee Island moth night and moth morning (TEA field trip, with Essex County Nature and Nature on Pelee)
• June 19 and 20: moth night at Hawk Cliff on Lake Erie, with opening of traps the next morning. With Mary Gartshore, Peter Carson and Allanah Vokes. St. Thomas Field Naturalists and Thames Talbot Land Trust.
• August 15: Backus Woods moth night: (TEA field trip, with Norfolk Nature)
• August 22, 8:30 to 9:30: moth talk at MacGregor Point Provincial Park's Visitor Centre
• Sept. 14: moth talk in Fenelon Falls at Kawartha Field Naturalists
• Sept. 15: moth talk at Garden Wilmot (Wilmot Horticultural Society)
• Sept. 24: leading moth component of University of Waterloo's BioBlitz 2026 event, Night Ecology: Moths & Bats
• Dec. 4: moth talk at St. Thomas Field Naturalists

I am also attending the Lepidopterists' Society annual meeting in Pittsburgh on June 25-27 and the Mothapalooza weekend in southern Ohio on July 17-18.

I have 3 events scheduled for 2027 so far:

• February 20, speaking on an insects and gardening topic at "Living Landscapes: A Southwest Symposium" at Wheatley Baptist Church, Wheatley, Ontario (near Leamington)
• May XX, Caledon Hills Biodiversity Committee at Riverside Woods property east of Orangeville (Sharon Bieck)
• June 4 and 5, morning opening of moth traps at the Huron Fringe Birding Festival (Port Elgin area)

With David Beadle and others in the TEA, I have created an online Ontario Moth Checklist. There is a line for every species, with the links for that species to iNat, BugGuide, MPG and more. It also shows which species are not included in iNat's computer vision and therefore will not be offered as suggestions.

Ontario, where I live, is a hotbed for moth-ers. See our activities on Moths of Ontario and Southern Ontario Moth Projects. I have particularly spent time observing the moths of Waterloo Region, Bruce and Grey Counties and Essex County. Within Waterloo Region, these favourite spots have their own iNat moth projects.

Here are some observations of mine that have brought me joy: (1) species of moths which were new to Ontario or Canada; (2) species of moths which were new to iNat for Ontario or Canada (but known from these areas from other records); (3) other unusual or fun stuff; (4) ID puzzles perhaps not fully solved; and (5) range extensions found in 2026.

Links to my recent articles:

• my mothing equipment: a Robinson trap from England paired with a battery-powered light source from Germany
• automated light traps for moths
• finding pitcher plant moths at Grass Lake in Waterloo Region
• a new moth species for Canada from Waterloo Region

I am vice-president of the Toronto Entomologists' Association and coordinate its monarch and swallowtail rearing permit and (with Rick Cavasin) Ontario Butterfly Atlas. I have received Ontario Nature's Achievement Award and the Entomological Society of Canada's Norman Criddle Award.

Here are some tools that supplement what is available within iNaturalist:

• New species. Provides a list of species that have been newly added to a place or project beyond a specified date. For "new to you," add your userID. See this explanation of all of Kildor's tools.
• Species list. Provides a list of species for a place or project, ranked by either their rarity within that project or their rarity within all iNat observations in the world. To limit the list to species you have observed, add your userID.
• Missing species. Provides a list of species that you have not observed for a place or project but at least one other observer has.
  
• glauber735 tools, especially "Achievements" and "Project Search". See this discussion in the iNat Forum.

iNaturalist itself also has some useful tools that many people may miss:

• the "observation calendar" will list species that are new to your life list. It will also provide thumbnail photos for every observation you made that day. These mini-pictures are organized by the time observed, so if you have accidentally uploaded an observation twice, two adjacent photos will be identical. Only the first 200 observations made in a day are used in the observation calendar. Steps: (1) use the mouse to hover over your profile picture in the top-right part of the screen to show the menu; (2) choose "Calendar"; and click on any particular date.
• when using the Explore tool, you can restrict the observations displayed to those that lie within a user-specified circle or rectangle. Thus, for example, an organizer of a moth event can draw a circle around the event site to see what moths have been seen there. And, after the event, observations made during the event can be displayed by applying the circle again while using a "Explore" setting to show only observations made on that date. Steps: (1) hover over your profile icon in the upper-right corner and select Dashboard; (2) click the Calendar tab (3) click on any date in the calendar.
• use "Identify" with the iNaturalist Geomodel. This can be used on your own observations to find both misidentifications and (if the ID is correct) range extensions. Steps: (1) log on to another person's iNat account, (2) click on the Identify menu item, (3) select your own observations, and (4) filter by "Geo score (Ascending)," Possibly also check the box "Not expected nearby". This technique highlights observations that fall outside the model's predicted range.