August Meeting: How to Identify Florida's Moths

Tue Aug 03 2021 at 07:00 pm

Harry P. Leu Gardens | Orlando

Tarflower Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society
Publisher/HostTarflower Chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society
August Meeting: How to Identify Florida's Moths
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Our monthly chapter meetings are in-person at Leu Gardens and stream live on Zoom. We have resumed our ticketed drawings to win native plants, and first-time attendees receive a free ticket.
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This month's topic:
How To Identify Florida's Moths with Dr. Marc Minno
More than 3,000 kinds of moths occur in Florida. They range in size from teeny tiny leaf miners whose adults are just a few millimeters in wingspan to giant Silkmoths which may be six inches or more from wingtip to wingtip. Moths occupy an amazing number of ecological niches from forests and meadows to closets in your home, gopher tortoise burrows, wood rat nests, and lakes. They eat leaves of course, but also spider webs, bees wax, hair and shells of dead animals, mushrooms, lichens, seeds, flowers, stems, and wood. A few moths are parasites. Most fly at night but some are day active and butterfly like. In this presentation we will discuss how to identify moths!
Dr. Minno has a Ph.D. in zoology and more than 30 years of professional experience as an interdisciplinary scientist. He is currently a Water Resource Coordinator with the Suwannee River Water Management District in Live Oak, Florida. Marc and Maria Minno also work on plant and butterfly projects throughout Florida via Eco-Cognizant, Inc., their home-based consulting business.
In addition to his many years of experience with wetlands, Dr. Minno is keenly interested in conservation biology and has conducted field research throughout the US and in Central America, South America, Caribbean, Europe, and India. Since 2011 Dr. Minno has been working with biologists in Cuba to better understand the ecological relationships of imperiled butterflies in southern Florida. He has authored/ coauthored six books and six book chapters on butterflies and plants.
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