MARION — The Sippican Lands Trust will host “Moth Man” Mark Mello, otherwise known as the research director of the Lloyd Center for the Environment in Dartmouth, as he hikes the woods at night, sampling moths in Marion. 

Mello is a recognized expert in all things lepidoptera and in his years of collecting with the Lloyd Center he has found nearly 700 different species. In the Zoom lecture, members of the Sippican Lands Trust will spend time with Mello out in the woods of Marion. Using grape jelly-based bait on trees and black lights on a sheet or traps Mello and lands trust members will see who is flying about on a summer night.

Mello often stays out until 2 a.m. or so, but SLT will join him at 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 13. Registration is free for members of the Sippican Lands Trust (or Lloyd Center) with a suggested donation of $10 for non-members.

Register for this Zoom event at www.sippicanlandstrust.org/events by Wednesday, Aug. 12 and Sippican Lands Trust will send the link and code by noon on Thursday, Aug. 13.

Two days later, the lands trust will offer a chance for a small group of volunteers to help out at the group’s Brainard Marsh property, clearing out invasive phragmites. Contact Alan Harris at alaharris@verizon.net to register. Participants must bring their own gloves and hedge trimmers. 

Later in the month, on Aug. 28 the Sippican Lands Trust will hold a Zoom workshop with edible plant expert Russ Cohen on edible plants and mushrooms found wild around Marion. There are over 75 species of edible plants, but Cohen will focus in on two dozen in a 60 minute Zoom powerpoint presentation at 7 p.m. 

To register for this program, visit https://sippicanlandstrust.org/events/.