ASHEBORO – North Carolina is home to an impressive diversity of glowing insects, including fireflies, glow worms and a really interesting little fly that lives in the mountains.
Learn about this phenomenon in a talk entitled “Synchronous Shows and Foxfire Glows: The Bioluminescent Insects of North Carolina” by Dr. Clyde Sorensen of North Carolina State University, 6:30 p.m. Monday, August 25, at the Asheboro Public Library.
Sorensen will discuss the diversity of the state’s bioluminescent insects, how they make their light, and what they do with it. He also will talk about threats to the glowing insects and what individuals can do to help them.
Sorensen is Alumni Association Distinguished Professor of Entomology at NCSU, where he has served on the faculty for 29 years. His research interests include biology, ecology, and management of insects and other arthropods in agricultural ecosystems.
He also specializes in the ecology of insects, and rare and endangered plants in longleaf pine ecosystems. For the last eight years, Sorensen has intensively studied the occurrence and distribution of fireflies in North Carolina.
Sorensen lives in Clayton, N.C.
The library is located at 201 Worth Street. For further information, call 336-318-6803.
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