Cancelled                                                     Learn to Raise Monarch Butterflies and share them with your Friends and Families                                                                  
                                      A ReWilding Port Washington and Monarch Butterfly Alliance Workshop                                                                
                                                          Saturday, September 22nd, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
                                                Port Washington Public Library, Lapham Room (Downstairs)


This  workshop turns the practice of raising Monarch Butterflies into a learning experience for adults and children. Participants will also be introduced to the surprising plants and animals associated with Monarchs as the Monarchs go through their brief reproductive life cycle in Port Washington along their migratory route from Mexico and back each year. Participants will receive local plants, caterpillars, equipment, storybooks, and the training needed to raise monarch butterflies in their homes, classrooms, and gardens. By releasing monarch butterflies into the world to join their migration and by planting seeds, participants will be supporting the growth and health of this imperiled species, pollinators, and Port Washington's biodiversity as a whole.

You can start conserving and protecting monarch populations in your backyard by planting or placing milkweed and nectar plants in the ground or in a pot. Monarch habitats are sites containing a variety of nectar-producing plants, especially milkweed, a family of plants that is the sole host for Monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars. If you plant it, they will come. Like oases, these habitats serve as connections or steppingstones linking populations of Monarch butterflies and a diversity of wildlife over the course of their migratory cycles and ranges.

The goals of the Monarch Alliance and ReWild Port Washington are to make the entire community of PW a butterfly sanctuary, to re-wild our area to promote biodiversity, and to make experiences of nature more accessible to the community. We will be hosting additional Monarch workshops for the general community, workshops for teachers, and planting events in public parks and other habitats throughout the year. For more information, see www.PWMonarchAlliance.org                                                 
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