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Uplands Park Insect BioBlitz

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Uplands Park Insect BioBlitz Day: Bug Walk Sunday June 22nd, 1:30 pm Refreshments 1-3:30 pm Night: Light Sheet Saturday June 21st, 10 pm - midnight Meet at the Beach Drive entrance to Cattle Point Image of a treehopper adults and nymphs photo credit: Charles Van Arsdall Join the project on iNaturalist all weekend long! June 20-22 QR code linking to https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/uplands-park-insect-bioblitz-june-2025 Logo for Friends of Uplands Park Logo for CICADA UVIC

Friends of Uplands Park Society (FOUP) are partnering with CICADA, an entomologist club at the University of Victoria, to put on the 4th Insect Bioblitz in Uplands Park. The event will be held the weekend of June 20 to 22, 2025.  Hoping you can attend and record your photo findings on iNaturalist.

There will be an information and  refreshment area with some chairs, in the Beach Drive field at the entrance to Cattle Point from 1 to 3:30 on Sunday, as well as a Bug Walk led by UVic students from 1 to 3pm. Join us for a relaxing chat. There will also be an experts only night excursion to do light sheet collecting from 10 pm to midnight on Saturday.