"Raising Butterflies in Your Garden: The How and the Why"

Speaker: Carol Pasternak

Raising butterflies is one of the most fun, educational, inspirational, and often life-changing activities families can enjoy during the summer. Through outstanding photographs and videos, you will learn what you need to plant to attract butterflies, where to find caterpillars, and how to care for them. You will discover their fascinating life cycles. Carol will discuss the current controversies over whether we should raise caterpillars at all or leave them alone in nature.

This is a family-friendly presentation.

Speaker Bio: Carol Pasternak is an author, teacher, photographer and sought after Motivational Nature Speaker who has been raising butterflies with her families for 40 years. In her free time, she can be found in ditches, meadows, and forests, scouring every crevice for signs of wildlife. Her book How to Raise Monarch Butterflies A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids, has sold 60,000 copies and received international acclaim. Her latest book, 5 Butterflies, inspires young people to pause their devices to revel in the natural world outside their door.

This Zoom program is free to all HPS/MAG Members. $15 for Non-members. Registration is required. This event will be recorded and will be available for registrants to watch for just 2 weeks following the lecture.

Click here to register for this virtual event. The deadline to register is January 5^th.

Click here if you would like to become a member of HPS/MAG before registering for this event.

Please make sure you have Zoom installed on your computer. Plan to join 5 minutes before the start time. The talk will be followed by a 15-minute Q&A. Questions can be submitted via chat box and will be read to the speaker by the HPS/MAG moderator. Please note that all participants will be muted for the duration of the event.

Important Info regarding registration: Please make sure you hit the "submit" button after registering on-line. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, then the registration process was not completed.

Contact: Nora Sirbaugh at [email protected]