Moth/Caterpillar/Everything Nocturnal prowl: Next Saturday night, August 23, in the heart of Clear Creek Metro Park in Hocking County. This will be a fun, productive nocturnal foray. Chelsea Gottfried, coauthor of the new book Gardening for Moths, kicks things off with a lushly illustrated PowerPoint presentation on moths, followed by mothing at various light stations. Jim McCormac and Clear Creek naturalist Katie Bennett, along with Chelsea, will help in searching for interesting creatures of the night and we should see many. This has been an amazing year for caterpillars, and we'll be seeking those with blacklight flashlights.
The fun starts at 7:30 pm, and all of the details are
RIGHT HERE.
The following images were made last Saturday night (8/16) at a nocturnal event at the amazing
Scioto Gardens native plant nursery in Delaware County. The diversity of critters there was incredible, and I'll hope to write more about that experience later. This offers a wee sampling of the sorts of creatures that we'll find at the Clear Creek event this Saturday.
Carolina Sphinx (Manduca sexta)
Spicebush Swallowtail caterpillar (Papilio troilus)
Gray Furcula caterpillar (Furcula cinerea)
White-banded Crab Spider (Misumenoides formosipes)
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