Join us for a Cambridge Entomological Club meeting this Tuesday on May 12th!

[Amine Kousba]

Date: May 12 @7:30 PM EST 
Location: In Person in MCZ101A, or on Zoom
Speaker: Amine Kousba (your president :))

Title: How do insects respond to artificial light at night?

Background: Increasing levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) and urbanization are becoming prevalent drivers of global insect declines. A key cause of this is that insects fly towards artificial lights (a behavior known as flight-to-light), leading to exhaustion, decreased foraging and reproduction, and increased vulnerability to predation. Shedding light on the environmental determinants of the timing of insect flight-to-light behavior carries implications for the conservation of at-risk species in increasingly illuminated urban, suburban, and rural habitats alike.

NOTICE: We will be holding hybrid meetings to accommodate COVID-19 precautions and audience members from around the world. You can join our Zoom meeting by clicking here.

For those able to attend, we will have an informal dinner at 6:00 pm at Nirvana (1680 Massachusetts Ave) with me, followed by our formal meeting (7:30 - 9:00 pm) in room MCZ101A of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (there will be signs to help direct). The meeting will begin with club announcements, followed by a 60-minute presentation and Q&A. 

I've had such a great time with you all this year and very much appreciate everyone sticking it out with me as I get to know the New England entomology community. 

Also, stay tuned for a fun series of summer meetings and field trips, starting with Brian Chan and Jason Jong's macrophotography presentation at our usual time and place on June 9th. Ideas for more are welcome - we'll probably do an insect pinning one too (if you're really good at pinning and want to lead this one, reach out!)