Popcorn and a Movie: Horseshoe Crab Moon

FREE "Popcorn and a Movie" event at 2 PM Saturday November 4: Horseshoe Crab Moon, 52 minutes. Discussion follows. For Junior High through Adult viewers. Enter at the lower-level Iowa Street entrance of Trinity Episcopal Church, 403 High Street, Mineral Point. 

HORSESHOE CRAB MOON follows scientists, researchers and citizen scientists who are studying the decline of the horseshoe crab along the East coast, and in particular the Delaware Bay. Horseshoe crab numbers have been declining rapidly over the last few decades due to the downturn in the Delaware Bay's water quality, and the over-harvesting of horseshoe crabs for bait. The film also looks at the resulting crash of the red knot, a globe-trotting sandpiper, which depends on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance during its incredible migrations. The number of migrating red knots has dropped nearly 80% in the last few years. For more details, visit our Facebook page.