Are you up for an insect adventure? With a hands-on, show-and-tell program, including 5x7 macro photos and field trip stories, Naturalist Laurie DiCesare will share some of her favorite encounters with “Odes” (Dragonflies and Damselflies); “Leps” (Butterflies and Moths); ornate flower flies (that mimic wasps); voracious tiger beetles; and some fascinating insect oddities.
We’ll mention easily-accessible natural areas; and online / print resources to help you identify and post your finds.
Bring your curiosity, your “inner child”…and a friend.
Photo Credit: Laurie DiCesare (Shown are: Clearwing Moth (a wasp mimic), Eastern Calligrapher Fly, Aurora Damselfly, and Black Swallowtail Butterfly)
Around 2005, while on an insect club field trip, naturalist Laurie DiCesare shared an Algonquin Park dragonfly booklet with a man who helped her identify some common species. Since then, she has studied dragonflies intensively, attended two week-long Odonate classes at Eagle Hill Institute in Steuben, Maine, and spending countless hours kayaking around Lake Arrowhead and other New England wetlands photographing these fascinating creatures.
Laurie DiCesare
