Gardening for Fireflies, Lightning Bugs & Glow-worms
Schedule
Mon Jun 24 2024 at 11:30 pm
UTC+00:00Location
1776 Far Hills Ave, Oakwood, OH, United States, Ohio 45419 | Oakwood, OH
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Presented in Partnership with Green Oakwood. Participants are invited to go for a firefly hunt after the presentationAs children, we loved to catch fireflies or lightning bugs on warm, summer nights, but over the years we've watched as fewer and fewer of them light up our neighborhoods. Now, though, we have discovered the keys to bringing them back, and you can help! Join us to discover the hidden world of fireflies and the amazing diversity of their species, behaviors, and lifestyles. We'll learn why they are threatened, what they need to survive, and gardening techniques to create a firefly-friendly yard (including a special native plant that attracts fireflies).
Matthew Speights is an avocational naturalist with interests in botany, entomology, and paleontology. As a young boy, he experienced the common dinosaur craze, but this grew from a phase into a permanent nature obsession that currently manifests through educational outreach, writing, and speaking about botany, orchid cultivation, terrarium construction, native gardening, entomology, and paleontology. Following the discovery of a previously unreported firefly species for Ohio, he has been occupied with educational outreach and field research on firefly distribution and conservation in the Midwest
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Where is it happening?
1776 Far Hills Ave, Oakwood, OH, United States, Ohio 45419Event Location & Nearby Stays:
