September 24 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Presentation by Monica Maeckle. The Monarch Butterfly Migration; Its Rise and Fall.
The Monarch Butterfly Migration Its Rise and Fall – a newly published book by Chapter Member, Monika Maeckle. In this informative and interesting book, we learn about the natural history of the monarch butterfly migration from 1976 to the present woven with a lot of cultural history and memoir. Monika will share with us her journey of from curiosity to involvement about monarch butterly migrations that touch on a variety of subjects and issues from milkweed species to tagging butterflies to the changes seen in annual migrations.
Monika Maeckle is a writer, Master Gardener, pollinator advocate, Monarch tagger, and curious student of nature who loves the whole life cycle. She founded the annual San Antonio Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival iN 2016 and posts on her site The Texas Butterfly Ranch https://texasbutterflyranch.com/.
This will be a “hybrid” meeting, attend in-person or online.
Online: Please register in advance to attend via Zoom.
In person: The Gathering Center at the Urban Ecology Center at Phil Hardberger Park, 8400 NW Military Hwy