Name: Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Carolina Ghosts, Synchronous Shows and Foxfire Lights
Start: 2025-05-22T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-22T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 100 Old Mason Farm Rd, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, North Carolina 27517

Full Title: Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Carolina Ghosts, Synchronous Shows and Foxfire Lights: The Bioluminescent Insects of North Carolina
With Clyde Sorenson, Alumni Associate Distinguished Undergraduate Professor, NC State University
Thursday, May 22
12-1 p.m.
Hybrid: In-person and on Zoom
Free!
Register: https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-374af03c25444afc89892f27701d66ac
In this presentation, entomologist Dr. Clyde Sorenson will introduce the substantial diversity of fireflies and other glowing insects, their ecology, and their conservation.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dr. Clyde Sorenson is an Alumni Association Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Entomology at North Carolina State University. He teaches several courses at NCSU including his undergrad Insects and People and the graduate course, Insect Ecology. Dr. Sorenson has conducted research on the ecology and management of agricultural pests and, more recently, on the ecology of insects associated with North Carolina forest systems, especially those found in longleaf systems. He lives in Clayton with his wife Leeann, two chocolate labs, three cats, and a 40 year old blue-fronted Amazon parrot named Floyd.