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Children under 12 are free. Your donation support mycology education throughout Texas. Become a Supporting Member
Join us for an evening of discovery at the newest UT Field Station in the Hill Country—a rare chance for the public to explore this pristine research site and its unique ecosystem.
We'll start with a guided mushroom walk, then after dark use UV flashlights to see the forest floor glow in surprising colors. You'll help document biodiversity for the annual City Nature Challenge. All ages welcome for this unique blend of nature and community science!
🔎 What’s in store?
🧬 6:30 PM: Guided Walk Starts – Explore the mysterious world of macro fungi and and see how we ID species. After dark we will look for glowing fungi, scorpions, and other nocturnal wonders under ultraviolet light!
🌱 Why join?
Help document biodiversity for the City Nature Challenge
Connect with local ecologists, mycologists, and conservationists
Mushrooms snacks! Enjoy beverages.
Enjoy a community-driven event in a unique urban nature preserve
Come for the science, stay for the adventure! Bring your curiosity, a camera for observations, and a sense of wonder. 🌍✨
Bring your own 365nm UV flashlight or purchase one from us and pick-up at the event.
About the UV (Blacklight) Night Walk
We will explore the diverse, nocturnal ecosystem with UV flashlights and cameras to look for mushrooms, night pollinators, birds, glowing plants, lichens and more. This walk will highlight fungi’s role in transforming a former dumpsite into a thriving urban forest. Learn how fungi is entangled in the forest helping plants gain water and nutrients, creating the pigments that give flowers their beautiful colors, to helping plants communicate with pollinators. We will have UV flashlights. Guests will learn how to look for, photograph and be community scientists in adding fluorescing organisms to the iNaturalist project. Learn more here about how some plants, mushrooms, lichens and insects have evolved color patterns that are visible in the ultraviolet portion of the electromagnetic light spectrum, which humans cannot see but many insects, birds and animals can see.
