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Selby EcoFlora Bioblitz @ Lemon Bay Preserve
February 23, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
The Marie Selby Botanical Garden’s EcoFlora Team and Botany Department will be leading a public bioblitz at Lemon Bay Preserve. [This is not Lemon Bay Park, which is in Englewood. ]
Bring a facemask, food, water, sunscreen/bug repellant, and a camera or smartphone to take photos for iNaturalist plus anything else needed for hiking. Feel free to bring family or friends but let us know how many and to be sure everyone has joined this project page.
The main goal of a bioblitz is to record as many plants and animals in this area as possible. Side goals for this bioblitz are to support the monthly eco quests this month being Looking for Love Vines, and the projects: Epiflora of the United States and Canada, and Mexican Bromeliad Weevils, with the latter two our continuing long term projects to support conservation.
The Palmetto Book author, Jono Miller, will be participating, although the sale of books in the park is probably prohibited. He will be paying special attention to plants growing in and on cabbage palms in advance of next month’s eco quest that deals with plants growing on cabbage palms.