{"id":595,"date":"2018-07-18T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/?p=595"},"modified":"2018-07-18T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:00:55","slug":"lets-go-mothwatching-in-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Go Mothwatching In Polk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071818_1200_LetsGoMothw1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve spent years managing and protecting natural areas in Polk County.\n<\/p>\n<p>The coming week is a time to learn more about the wildlife these lands are protecting.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking  about National Moth Week, which kicks off Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/conservation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/071818_1200_LetsGoMothw2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Two local events have been scheduled so far, both of them on properties owned and managed by Green Horizon Land Trust.\n<\/p>\n<p>One will be Saturday at Barbara Pedersen Preserve at the edge at 6609 Scenic Highway beginning at 8:30 p.m.\n<\/p>\n<p>The other will be next Tuesday at Lewis Arboretum, located on Overlook Drive across from St. Matthew Catholic Church in Winter Haven.\n<\/p>\n<p>Bring a folding chair, bug spray, refreshments and the kids.\n<\/p>\n<p>These are family-friendly events.\n<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature setting up lights near sheets and waiting to see what will be attracted to the lights and land on the sheet.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to moths, these events typically attract not only moths,, but also beetles, mayflies, caddisflies  and all other manner of flying invertebrate.\n<\/p>\n<p>The event is free.\n<\/p>\n<p>   \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spent years managing and protecting natural areas in Polk County. The coming week is a time to learn more about the wildlife these lands are protecting. I&#8217;m talking about National Moth Week, which kicks off Saturday. Two local events have been scheduled so far, both of them on properties owned and managed by Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gci"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientislands.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}