Norwalk PL & NRWA Present Live Gardening Talk On Zoom August 20

Press release by the Norwalk Public Library:

August 10 2020

Norwalk, CT, August 10, 2020– The Norwalk Public Library is pleased to join with the Norwalk River Watershed Association for another live, nature-friendly webinar - Attracting Butterflies to Your Garden and Yard! - presented by lepidopterist Victor DeMasi, on Thursday, August 20, at 12 noon, on Zoom. Please register in advance for this program at:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcof-2srz0uHtT5FoHIT8pIDjEsw7xrm3A1. You will receive a confirmation email with information about joining the meeting.

Learn about our area’s butterflies and moths, and which plants they need in order to survive and thrive, from lepidopterist Victor DeMasi, research affiliate for Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, and NRWA Advisory Board member, who has been studying butterflies and moths in the Norwalk River Valley since 1977.

Victor DeMasi lives near the Norwalk River in Redding, on an old dairy farm that he has managed as a pollinator habitat for over 40 years. He conducts an annual monarch count, and is currently collecting specimens for a new collection of pollinators from the area, for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

For additional information, please contact Sally Nacker at: snacker@norwalkpl.org

This press release was produced by the Norwalk Public Library. The views expressed here are the author’s own.