Chapter Meeting: Native Host Plants for Butterflies and Moths
This talk will leave you with the knowledge and resources needed to encourage and appreciate a wider diversity of caterpillars, butterflies, and moths in a Texas native plant garden.
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This talk will leave you with the knowledge and resources needed to encourage and appreciate a wider diversity of caterpillars, butterflies, and moths in a Texas native plant garden.
Beautiful, intricate, active predators throughout their lives, the best natural mosquito control, and numerous in Texas—DRAGONFLIES! Urban wildlife biologist Sam Kieschnick leads us in an exploration of these amazing insects.
Eighteen miles north of Fredericksburg the tip of a pink granite batholith, – 1.1 billion years old – rises above the much younger limestone layers of the Edwards Plateau.Enchanted Rock
A relationship of plant communities and wildlife explained and why we shouldn’t hate mosquitoes.
Darla Harris highlights 21 Texas ferns that are native to the region or do well in the Houston area. Also, the history of ferns and their reproductive strategies are covered.
Chapter members share their successes and other learning experiences from their own native plant gardens.
Just as milkweeds are the only plants Monarch butterfl ies use to raise their young, our native plantsare also critically important to the adult Monarchs as they migrate through Texas.
**ARCHIVED POST ** This talk included an overview of the Monarch life cycle and migration but focused on recent scientific studies and milkweed native to our area. About the Speaker
**ARCHIVED POST ** Bayside Regional Park is a park located in an underserved community in Bacliff, Texas. When Texas Master Naturalist members Stennie Meadours and Sandy Parker learned about the
**ARCHIVED POST ** Ever wonder what exactly grows in a prairie? Iris Poteet of the Coastal Prairie Conservancy focuses on native and non-native plants found in the coastal prairie landscape
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