Welcome Lightning Bugs! Fireflies! (Beetles who light up their bums) to Wolf Trap National Park, July 18th
Photo: “firefly 2010 06 09 092, Photinus pyralis” by Terry Priest is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Event Details
Use this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/n…
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Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts,
1551 Trap Rd, Vienna, VA, 22182Event will begin at 7:30 pm Meet behind Filene Center.
Cover your flashlights and phone with red film. Red film with be available.
Nature will provide the fireflies and music, the symphony of the nocturnal creatures.
A talk about fireflies will be given by Alonso Abugattas, The Capital Naturalist, about all of their mystery and magic.
Link to talk: http://capitalnaturalist.blogspot.com/2014/06/fireflies.html
Information about how to use artificial light at night responsibly will be provided. Artificial light at night prevents the fireflies from finding dates, to find mates to make little baby fireflies. Learn what you can do to protect them and save them from extinction.
Bring a chair, blanket, a dessert and a drink. Wear comfortable shoes suitable for walking on uneven ground. Come prepared to savor the night as Mother Nature designed it, in this treasure of Wolf Trap National Park. And most of all come to have fun dancing with the fireflies!
Event will proceed rain or shine.
More about fireflies: https://www.firefly.org/
