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The Maryland Entomological Society's 327th regular meeting will be held Friday, 15 March 2019, at 8:00 p.m., in Room 004 (one floor below the street level), Biological Sciences Building, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).
Bring a friend and specimens, observations, and books to share! Refreshments will be provided. The "Butterflies of Howard County, Maryland" presentations are scheduled to begin at 8:15 p.m.
Guest speakers, Linda Hunt and Kevin Heffernan, will present results and observations from the five-year Howard County Butterfly Survey, a citizen-science project involving at least 112 participants spending over 3,022 hours in the field documenting over 100,000 butterflies of 79 species. The program will describe volunteer efforts, status of species historic to Howard County and suggestions for possible post survey activities.
Kevin Heffernan has BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Drexel and Johns Hopkins University respectively. He worked for 40 years at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory developing instrumentation for small science spacecraft. He retired in 2017. Kevin is a past president of the Howard County Bird Club and a butterfly enthusiast.