Daily Archives: May 6, 2011

Saturday, May 28, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Spring into Summer: A Celebration of Plants

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The Polly Hill Arboretum on State Road in West Tisbury is looking forward to a new season and will open its Visitor Center on May 28 with a new event, Spring into Summer: A Celebration of Plants.  This celebration will kick off the summer season with the annual Memorial Day plant sale, special talks and tours, a book sale, tree raffle, garden talks,  and much more.  For more information, log on to www.pollyhillarboretum.org, or follow them on Facebook.

 

 

 

Tuesday, May 10, 7:15 pm – Katydids of South Africa: An Exploration of a Nearly Unknown Fauna

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The next meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club will be held Tuesday, May 10 at 7:15 pm in the Harvard University Herbarium seminar room.  Piotr Naskrecki will present a talk entitled Katydids of South Africa: An Exploration of a Nearly Unknown Fauna.  Piotr Naskrecki has traveled the world investigating invertebrate biodiversity, capturing beautiful images of the natural world and studying katydids.  Dr. Naskrecki will address the club to discuss his NSF-funded orthopteroid survey work in South Africa.  The talk will include a biogeographical and historical overview of the country’s katydid fauna and highlight some of the interesting species radiations that have been uncovered.  The meeting location information may be accessed at www.huh.harvard.edu/visiting/.  To see examples of Dr. Naskrecki’s work, log on to www.insectphotography.com.  His photo of a pink-eyed katydid is seen below.