Here to help with Lepidoptera pages.
My experience in Lepidoptera research and fieldwork include:
- U.K. (1981 - 1996)
- Hong Kong (1982 - 1987, 1994, 1997 to present)
- co-founder, life member and first chairman of Hong Kong Lepidopterists' Society
- organised the First (South East) Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium, hosted by Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden, Hong Kong and held at Kadoorie Agricultural Research Centre (now the Kadoorie Centre, the University of Hong Kong, Shek Kong, Hong Kong, 4th to 8th September 2006. (proceedings were published in December 2007). Attended, as organising committee member, the second (renamed as Asian Lepidoptera Conservation Symposium) symposium in Penang, Malaysia (November 2008); ALCS3 in Coimbatore, India (October 2010); ALCS4 at Nankai University in Tianjin, China (June 2012); ALCS5 at The University of Hong Kong (December 2018) and ALCS6 hosted by Zoological Survey of India and held at Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary, Jamshedpur and ZSI headquarters in Kolkata (September 2019). Papers were presented in ALCSs 3, 4 & 6, with posters presented at ALCSs 2 & 5.
- maintaining the Moths of Hong Kong [4] website (from 1997 to present)
- Ph.D. from The University of Hong Kong's Department of Ecology & Biodiversity (now Division of Ecology & Biodiversity), studying the moths of Hong Kong.
institutions visited for the comparative identification of HK species during this study were:
- moth survey work in Hong Kong in 1994 and from December 1996 to present
- China (2004, 2005, 2009, 2012)
- India (2010, 2017, 2019)
- Malaysia (2016, 2017, 2018)
- workshop facilitator and course leader for field identification skills workshops at Fraser's Hill, Pahang, with some of the observations posted on iNaturalist
- Singapore (2014, 2017)
- South Africa (1996, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2023)
will add a little more relevant info as time permits.