Saturday, July 19, 2025 1pm - 4pm

Free to the public

All Photos on this web page courtesy of the Caterpillar Lab and Sam Jaffe

Sam Jaffe is the founder of Caterpillar Lab, a New Hampshire nonprofit that fosters appreciation and care for the complexity and beauty of the natural world by using the mind-bending, gorgeous creatures we know as caterpillars as a gateway experience. Sam is returning to Ohio with his practiced talents of re-creating a “caterpillar lab” on the road. Witness Sam’s collection of live caterpillars feeding on their native food sources during the program and marvel at their colors and diversity of form. After the event, caterpillars will be returned to their native plant hosts to complete their life cycle.

Sam Jaffe is a New England-based naturalist, photographer, and educator who is a dedicated advocate of insects. In 2013 he founded “The Caterpillar Lab,” a non-profit educational outreach organization in Marlborough NH. From this hub, he travels across the country - taking the educational message to universities, museums, botanic gardens, nature centers, and schools, Sam is also writing and illustrating a very in-depth book on the identification and natural history of native caterpillars. When he is not behind the camera or tending his zoo of caterpillars, Sam is outdoors, waist-deep in vegetation as he searches out his friends of the wild.