be part of lepidopterist Victor DeMasi as he takes you on a sunny day walk via his butterfly meadow in Redding Connecticut. alongside the style we are able to view some of the rare and customary species he has viewed there in forty years of stewardship. DeMasi will explain the life histories of some of our species and he'll tell us how a butterfly garden promotes a range of aurelian beauties.
feedback will encompass a discussion of butterflies in our altering atmosphere with concerns reminiscent of local weather change and invasive plant species. The advanced death of the Monarch Butterfly will get hold of selected emphasis. he will go on to discover his reviews within the biology of the Tiger swallowtail, considered one of our extraordinary butterflies.
An awesome display of specimens from the Yale Peabody Museum of herbal heritage might be on reveal.
DeMasi is a wetland conservation officer in his hometown of Redding and a research affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum of herbal historical past in New Haven. He busies himself with holding open house in town and keeping butterflies within the museum. His field work with butterflies contributed pretty much a thousand citations to the lately published Connecticut Butterfly Atlas. He has contributed articles to scientific publications and his mark-recapture reports with Swallowtail butterflies was lately referred to in the ebook Swallowtails of the Americas.
This program is free and open to the public.
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