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#westerncape — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. #CitizenScience rediscovers rare South African moth news.mongabay.com/2026/02/citi paper: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/17

    "A strikingly handsome emerald-green #moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in #SouthAfrica by #CitizenScientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth was thought to be #extinct. The species hadn’t been recorded since two male specimens were collected near the #WesternCape town of Swellendam around 1875."

  2. #CitizenScience rediscovers rare South African moth news.mongabay.com/2026/02/citi paper: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/17

    "A strikingly handsome emerald-green #moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in #SouthAfrica by #CitizenScientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth was thought to be #extinct. The species hadn’t been recorded since two male specimens were collected near the #WesternCape town of Swellendam around 1875."

  3. #CitizenScience rediscovers rare South African moth news.mongabay.com/2026/02/citi paper: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/17

    "A strikingly handsome emerald-green #moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in #SouthAfrica by #CitizenScientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth was thought to be #extinct. The species hadn’t been recorded since two male specimens were collected near the #WesternCape town of Swellendam around 1875."

  4. #CitizenScience rediscovers rare South African moth news.mongabay.com/2026/02/citi paper: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/17

    "A strikingly handsome emerald-green #moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in #SouthAfrica by #CitizenScientists who posted photographs of it online. The moth was thought to be #extinct. The species hadn’t been recorded since two male specimens were collected near the #WesternCape town of Swellendam around 1875."