Join Bud Sechler, Ecological Programs Coordinator, to learn about the history and critical ecological resources of Native Plant Trust’s most active sanctuary. This June 17 webinar from 1 – 2 includes updates on recent rare plant surveys and an invasive plant management plan to restore habitats at Nasami Farm. $12 for NPT members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at www.nativeplanttrust.org.
You are invited to the Emerald Necklace Conservancy’s Virtual 2020 Annual Meeting: Charlesgate Park Revitalization, Rebuilding Connections and a Community Park in the Emerald Necklace.
Join the Conservancy for a virtual celebration of a successful year protecting, maintaining and improving the Emerald Necklace and find out more about the exciting projects to come. Discover plans for the revitalization of Charlesgate Park, the first piece of the Necklace and the critical connection between Boston’s primary park systems, with presentations and discussion from Conservancy President Karen Mauney-Brodek, project architects Dan and Marie Adams of Landing Studio, and Garrett Dash Nelson, Curator of Maps at the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center.
The meeting will be online via Zoom. Register at https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/events/annualmeeting/
In normal years, the Athol Bird and Nature Club hosts a Moth Ball at president Dave Small’s house in June, concentrating on attracting moths to lights and baits at night. We can’t do that this year, but we thought instead the club could host a virtual Moth Ball and, in fact, widen the net to include all invertebrates (yes, we meant that pun!). Please join us for the first Massachusetts Invertebrate Interlude Days with Great Expectations, or MIIDGE for short, on June 19th through the 21st. This project is set up to automatically collect all observations of invertebrates in Massachusetts made on those three days, but if you join this project, you’ll get notifications of all of those observations as they’re posted, as well as any announcements we make leading up to the event and afterward. Pull your moth lights out of the closet, pile all the field guides next to the couch for easy reading, and get ready for a bit of fun in this crazy year.
Sign-up for iNaturalist a very easy to use and helpful app for your phone on computer.
Learn about Blacklighting for nocturnal insects with Ryan “the Bug Man”
