From the black grasshopper began to sing to the only Mongolian cicada faintly singing
From the tender songbird nymphs to the season of "listening to autumn", which is full of natural sounds
From "listening to the sound of frogs" to the croaks that stop on the water lilies leaves
From the specks of fluorescent light lingering over the forest to the darkness of the night
From the dark night fragrance of purple jasmine to the ripening of small mines back to the earth
From observing the water lily flowers closing and resting to admiring the blossoming of the king lotus
Spotted wax cicada
Black spotted frog
Yellow-winged veined fireflies
Hardy water lilies
Cruz Wang Lian
Wang Lian, who works the night shift
Shanghai Botanical Garden's "Elf Covenant Secret Visit night elf" night nature observation activity has accompanied children for a summer, and the thirteenth season has come to a perfect end.
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Shanghai Botanical Garden brand science popularization activity "Secret Visit night elf" has been loved by the public since its launch in 2009, and has been successfully held for 13 years this year, relying on the rich plant and wildlife resources in the park, to introduce night nature observation, exploration and other projects to parent-child families. It is hoped that through this relatively novel way of activity, children can pay attention to nature with a pair of discovery eyes, observe and explore the magic of nature, understand the diversity of species, achieve the purpose of biodiversity conservation education, and realize the life of nature education by entering the community.
Popular science lectures, open the introduction to nature observation
In order to make it easier for children to enter nature, get close to nature, and appreciate the beauty of nature, before the night exploration of the boutique "secret visit to the night elves", the Shanghai Botanical Garden will arrange a popular science lecture for the public, everyone can learn the reasons why nocturnal animals choose to haunt at night and their "special functions" in the classroom, and know a variety of animals and plants with nocturnal behavior, such as plants that "sleep" at night, plants that bloom at night, and small animals that will come out at night to hunt and court, and other scientific knowledge. And learn the mysteries behind these magical phenomena.
Characteristic habitats, experience the diversity of colorful creatures
Bi Wei Feng
green lacewing
inchworm
Red Snake
Big worms
Spring clouds
Fat cockroach
Black-breasted cockroach
Ring snail
Cockroaches
Protocellum crawfish
Wart geckos
Participants can experience the natural ecology of a variety of habitats according to the tour route, including a wide lawn, you can find bats hovering overhead preying on moths, night herons rushing across the sky to return to their nests; in the tall and dense jungle, looking for fluorescent fireflies; in the lush bushes, looking for various planted insects and their predators; in the humid fern botanical garden, find the camouflage master bamboo carnotes and various surface arthropods and various snails and snails; in the pond where aquatic plants flourish, Observe the "sleep" of the flower blossoming and the water lily flower closing, as well as various frogs, fish, shrimp, crabs, etc.; look for various beetles on a large elm tree known as the "sacred tree" that has been weathered by wind and frost, and observe the shelling of golden cicadas; on the old building, observe gecko climbing and gecko eggs...
Open the five senses and feel the colorful nature of magic
Northeast hedgehog
Grey snails
Golden Wire Frog
Green garden spider
Giant saw shovel armor
Funnel spider
Earthworms & leeches
Blind spider
Japanese textile lady
Water weasel
Double-line mucinous slugs
Chinese giant toad
To become a qualified natural observer, you need to open up the five senses in the activity, because feeling is far more important than understanding. In addition to using your eyes to observe and find the morphological color of the species; you can use the sense of touch, touch the hardness of the beetle, the roughness of the bark, the bare skin of the frog with your hand; you can use the sense of smell to feel the fragrance of purple jasmine, the freshness of the camphor, the odor of the hemp skin bug glands; nature has a good sound everywhere, learning to listen is an important part of natural observation, frogs, cicadas, insects chirping and other natural sounds.
Nature experiences that explore the mysteries of the natural world
Mantis mantis
Four-spotted tail nails
hibiscus
Less spiny centipedes
Transparent-winged, wide-winged wax cicada
weevil
Hidden mantis arm hand crab
Curved shin large axis armor
Jade ribbon dragonfly
Ornamented frog
Chinese mulberry
Brown mantis
Nature observation at night is the most anticipated activity, incarnating as a little explorer, looking for plants, insects, birds, frogs and mammals in a natural way. As night fell, the elves began their busy lives. The cute little hedgehog plunged into the grass in front of him and pretended that no one else had found it; the budding purple jasmine, quietly blooming in the dense shade of the tree, revealing its long-hidden fragrance; the stealth master bamboo worm, disguised itself as a branch, crouching on the host plant into one and making it difficult to distinguish; the sparkling fireflies, flying into the deep night sky, emitting its rare light.
Step into the community and feel the fun of a natural home
In order to let more children enter nature, get close to nature and appreciate the beauty of nature, since 2016, Shanghai Botanical Garden has brought the "Secret Visit to the Night Elf" activity to the community and truly delivered it to the public. The community version of the night tour allows children to explore the nature of the city without leaving the community, so that everyone can understand the dark night around them, which also shows a different charm and promotes the life of nature education.
"The Covenant of the Elves Secretly Visiting the Night Elves" night nature observation activities allow more and more children to discover, understand and love the wonderful world around them, so that more people can re-establish intimate relationships with nature, live in harmony with nature, and better solve problems about nature.
Source: Shanghai Botanical Garden
Editors: Ning Pingying, Cao Xiangyu