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Emerald Necklace July 2021 | Vol VIDEO CLIPS FEATURE! Click this icon appearing in articles to view videos on the subject. ® JULY 2021 Asian Lantern Festival Returns Experience the Zoo at night July is for Mothing Celebrate National Moth Week Water Excursions Explore parks in a new way Opening of Red Line Greenway trail in downtown Cleveland A LETTER FROM BRIAN ZIMMERMAN Re-Connecting with Trails, Nature & Special Events CONTENTS Happy July! What a summer it’s been so far. In many ways, it’s a return to normal in our parks, on our trails, and at our marinas, golf 2 Letter from Brian & Pathfinder courses and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. As you Find Your Path across our 24,000 acres, including our newest trails and amenities, please do your part by packing in and packing out. With the high volume 3 National Moth Week of guests in recent months, taking home your disposable items helps keep our park areas clean for all to enjoy. 4 Naturalist’s Almanac & In case you missed the news — the Re-Connecting Cleveland project is now complete! Annual Cicadas Five trail projects totaling over four miles, including the new Wendy Park Bridge, are now open for exploration thanks to strong partnerships. These trails break down transportation 5 Honey Bees and Pollen Drought & Nature Centers barriers that have existed for decades and improve access to and from downtown and our lakefront. I hope you use the Cleveland Metroparks mobile app to explore our newest urban trails this summer! 6 Asian Carp & Hawthorn • Red Line Greenway links the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail to two RTA Red Line Rapid Transit stations, and provides a primary active transportation corridor 7 What’s Happening from West 65th Street to downtown Cleveland. • Whiskey Island Connector links the Wendy Park Bridge to Edgewater Park and the 8 Nature Shop & Cleveland Lakefront Bikeway. Dining Spots • Wendy Park Bridge links the Cleveland Foundation Centennial Lake Link Trail to Wendy 9 Golf Courses & Park. Swimming Areas Our July Emerald Necklace offers plenty of more ways to celebrate the summertime in Cleveland Metroparks – from the Lake Erie Water Trail to National Moth Week! July also 10 In Your Backyards marks the highly anticipated return of Asian Lantern Festival! Now in its fourth year, the festival has become a summer staple in Cleveland. This year’s show includes all 11 Outdoor Recreation new lanterns as well as a chance to experience a night-time ride on the new Eagle Zip Adventure over Waterfowl Lake. I’ll see you out there! 12 Directory & Map VIDEO FEATURE! Click this icon appearing in articles to view videos on the subject. Brian Zimmerman Cleveland Metroparks CEO Click or touch a section above to access it directly. Click on the home button (shown here) at the top corner of each page to return you here. Below: Wendy Park Bridge in the background with new all purpose trail at Wendy Park. Above: Red Line Greenway trail connecting Above: Whiskey Island Connector to downtown Cleveland along the RTA Trail which links Edgewater Park Rapid Transit lines from W. 65th. to Wendy Park. 2 Emerald Necklace July 2021 | Vol. 70 #7 INSIDE OUR PARKS National Moth Week July 17–25, 2021 oths, the less-acclaimed the bright orange and white colorations The rosy maple moth should be called cousin of the butterfly, get the can help in identifying this amazing and the bubblegum moth due to its bright Mattention they deserve during small (only .75 - 1.25 inches) moth. Native pink and yellow coloration. These true National Moth Week. The third week summer and early fall blooms are essential nocturnal fliers are only adults for a short of July (17-25), moths are celebrated to this moth’s survival and vice versa. Look time, and they do not eat. The fat from the throughout the country for their diversity for them sucking nectar and pollinating caterpillar stage keeps the adult alive long and benefits to the natural world. Moths flowers this month. enough to mate and lay eggs. Deep forests come in all sizes and colors; they can be are wonderful locations to spot these Hummingbird clearwing moths are some of as small as a pin head or as large as the beautiful insects clinging to a tree during the most sought-after moths in Cleveland size of an adult’s hand. Ohio has 3,000 the day. Even though they are not essential Metroparks. With their hummingbird like different moth species that can be found for pollination, they are important food agility and appearance, they are hard to in every habitat, and we will highlight sources for many animals including blue capture on camera. These daytime nectar five of them. jays and tufted titmice. eaters are also essential for a diverse and The ailanthus webworm moth is unique healthy ecosystem. Flitting from bloom Can you see why the pearly wood nymph in two ways; they hold their wings tight to bloom, they transport pollen for vital moth is also known as the bird poop against their body when not in flight pollination. Gardens and small meadows moth? Camouflage is extremely important and they are active during the day. are phenomenal locations to look for these for many small insects as a deterrent to These distinctive adaptations along with charming moths. predators. Having no mouth parts, the adult moth lives off the fat resources collected as a caterpillar. Like the rosy maple moth, its only purpose is to mate Identifying MOTHS of Cleveland Metroparks and reproduce. Cecropia moths are the largest moths in North America, with a wingspan reaching almost six inches. Bright maroon colors and eye spots deter predators, giving the appearance of a larger animal. These adults need to avoid predators because they are only adults for about a week, lack Hummingbird clearwing moth Rosy maple moth mouthparts and do not feed. They too live off the fat resources they accumulated as a caterpillar. To find these amazingly Photo (left) by beautiful creatures, turn on a light and Jen Goelnitz, brew some coffee because they tend to fly Fairview Park after 11 p.m. and prefer deeper forests. Moths are a fascinating and complex Ailanthus webworm moth group of lepidopterans that are as essential to our world as their butterfly kin. Look for ways you can celebrate these creatures during National Moth Week; explore your parks to see them in action. Natalie Schroder, Naturalist CanalWay Center Pearly wood nymph moth Cecropia moths Photo by Jen Goelnitz, Fairview Park clevelandmetroparks.com 3 NATURALIST’S ALMANAC Month of July ~ a Flurry of Wings & Wildflowers Milkweed The hot summer days have arrived already fledged — young, brilliant black- Wildflowers and the forests that were once and-gold American goldfinches and The stunning colors of large filled with bird songs now ornately colored cedar waxwings only rosemallow and pickerelweed flowers give way to droning insect now begin to gather nesting material. adorn the edges of wetlands and orchestras. During the Bird songs still dominate the sounds of ponds. Milkweed — the host plant day, annual cicadas start early morning in the deep woodlands, but of the monarch butterfly — begins to sing as soon as the as the month ends, warblers, tanagers, to explode its crown of pink flowers. temperature reaches 70 thrushes and other resident species go Large fields hold stands of purple degrees, and meadows quiet as the nesting season winds down. coneflower and blazing star: important are filled with raspy calls of Young red-shouldered and broad-winged plants for nectaring insects. Jewelweed crickets and grasshoppers. hawks are now patrolling the woodland is flourishing in vast clumps in sunlit After the sun sets, the edges. patches of woodlands and woodland Skimmer chorus intensifies as katydids edges. dragonfly join the serenade, singing Insects from high in the tree canopy. The July is high time to find a cornucopia of sheer abundance of insects provides butterflies, dragonflies and damselflies. a bounty of protein-packed food for birds Flashy swallowtails, sulphurs, azures, and and mammals. Fields and forest edges fritillaries adorn the heads of grassland are bursting with late summer wildflower wildflowers. The airspace above wetlands, diversity, with deep purple and pink of the ponds and lakes is a flurry of wings with season’s first ironweed and Joe-pye weed. skimmers, dashers, darners, forktails, and pondhawk dragonflies and Birds damselflies mating and catching While most resident breeding birds have small insect prey. Cedar waxwing What’s the B buzzUZ Z About Cicadas? Like a scene from a sci-fi movie, the U year. While they are not often seen, they emergence of the 17-year cicadas locusts, periodical cicadas emerge every can be heard on summer days from high is something most people won’t 17 (or 13) years depending on species. in the trees. The males produce sound forget. Millions of big creepy As adults, they are short lived, living using special organs on their abdomen insects seem to appear from only a few weeks. Their main goal is to called tymbals. While their life cycle is nowhere and they are often reproduce. Once the female is ready to similar to the periodical cicadas, they unwanted visitors at lay eggs, she will make a slit in a small only spend a few years underground outdoor barbeques and tree branch with her ovipositor and as nymphs. Also, their emergence is celebrations. Fortunately, deposit the eggs. Once the eggs hatch, staggered, so we see, or hear, them they don’t bite or sting. small (ant-sized) nymphs drop to the every year. A great website reference to While part of Ohio is ground and bury in the dirt.
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