SUCCESS -- Thanks to you we got funded!

Next Steps: That was an amazing 6 weeks and I greatly appreciate everything to get this project funded. The support of our great backers means further progress on this project. We have big plans to make maximum advantage of the funding to ensure that we will have what is needed to complete our research.

We encourage you to find a project on this site and become a backer!!!!!! Having experienced the way that the staff at experiment.com nurture, mentor and assist their resident scientists - I can tell you from experience this is a great way to encourage and fund scientific research!!!!

Timeframe: The initial study is nearing completion and will result in a paper submitted for publication sometime in the next several months. This paper will deal with the establishment of the colonies presence and its identity. 1) We are working hard on the first of 2 papers and this funding will enable us to make a trip down to the study area in Late June or July. We will publish lab notes on a regular basis to keep the public updated as to what trips have been taken and what advances we have been made.

Your thoughtfulness will result in some very important science and in a couple of years (when the park opens) you will be able to come down to Calhoun County, Texas and see the moth for yourself! We will keep you informed. It is our intention to hold a moth watching event in December each year (once the park is open) to keep the attention focused on Hemileuca peigleri. Thank you again and we are so grateful!!! As one of our backers so intelligently said "Go Science!" Bob