Summer Mothing with TPWD’s Sam Kieschnick At Oak Point Park

Submitted by: Leah Justice, Class of 2021

It was a typical hot and humid summer night at the recent mothing event at Oak Point on June 15th.  Sam Keischnick spoke to the crowd of park visitors and master naturalists about insects that we might see.  The kids in the audience were very excited to interact with a Common Green Darner dragonfly that showed up on one of the screens early in the evening.

Sam set up several stations and Blackland Prairie TX Master Naturalists also brought their own mothing equipment to add to the fun.  We were not disappointed!!  According to Sam K., attendees logged over 250 species in iNaturalist that night! Check it out:  https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?nelat=33.085423543188355&nelng=-96.64586812383199&on=2024-06-15&place_id=any&swlat=33.029888495743336&swlng=-96.69582158452535&view=species