Moths by month in words

Post date: Feb 9, 2012 10:20:07 PM

Just for fun, have added some "Wordle" diagrams to our What's Flying Tonight page. Wordle generates diagrams showing the words that appear most frequently in any given piece of text. From our MapMate database I listed the common names of macro-moths for every record in a given month, i.e. so that the moth name is repeated for each record, and then calculated the Wordle diagram from that list. It only really shows the most common species with any clarity, and I suspect will be too limited to help much with the busy summer months, but it does give some indication of the changing moth seasons. And as I said, it's just for fun really (plus a distraction from work earlier today!).