Join us for a meeting on May 12th! + LOTS OF ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Amine Kousba]

Summary up here, more details below :)

1. Meeting on May 12th at 7:30pm at MCZ101A by yours truly, bringing you the scoop on light pollution

2. Please sign the firefly state insect support letter by filling out this google form. Send it to your friends, send it to your family, send it to your dog! We want as many names in support as possible!

3. If you're going to the May 16 Bioblitz in Marlboro, VT and want to carpool, use this doc to organize that.

4. Here's our new Instagram page, Facebook group, and Discord server. I'll post the same announcements on all three accounts but think it would be fun to have as many ways as possible for members to engage.

5. If you are interested in being club president next year, shoot me an email!

Save the date for a chat about light pollution's impact on insects from yours truly :) you'll get to hear about everything I've been working on for the past year and get the gossip about insect attraction to artificial light at night fresh off the press (even before it hits the press, actually)!

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

Title: something about light pollution and insect behavior, updates incoming soon

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!)