{"id":11304,"date":"2022-07-07T13:41:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=11304"},"modified":"2022-08-12T09:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T13:46:21","slug":"yow-86-lights-up-with-firefly-research%ef%bf%bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2022\/07\/07\/yow-86-lights-up-with-firefly-research%ef%bf%bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Yow \u201986 lights up with firefly research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/1200x0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/1200x0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11305\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Allen Yow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After spending the last several summers pursuing his own passion for fireflies, Allen Yow \u201986 of Jacksonville, Illinois, has teamed up with the Morgan County Audubon Society to hold firefly festivals in his yard and to conduct firefly walks in the Jacksonville area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yow\u2019s love for nature and for learning more about the bug was recently highlighted in an online feature story published by the Jacksonville Journal-Courier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjournalcourier.com\/news\/article\/Neighbors-Nature-lights-up-life-for-Jacksonville-17264013.php#photo-18857608\">You can read more of Yow\u2019s story here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yow has been a bird watcher for more than 40 years and has always had a general interest in nature. He knew there were different species of fireflies but really didn\u2019t give it much thought until one night in his yard six years ago when he witnessed varied firefly colors and patterns that really piqued his interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted to learn more, but I was kind of surprised that I couldn\u2019t find very much information in Illinois about the different firefly species,\u201d Yow said. \u201cI found a book that led me to make contact with some people that actually study fireflies. They have been very kind to share information and images, to provide me with material so I can give visual programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yow has lived in Jacksonville since 1969 and works as an attorney with Rammelkamp Bradney, PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Wabash, Yow was part of the Sigma Chi fraternity and majored in Classics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the last several summers pursuing his own passion for fireflies, Allen Yow \u201986 of Jacksonville, Illinois, has teamed up with the Morgan County Audubon Society to hold firefly festivals in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/1200x0.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11307,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11304\/revisions\/11307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}