7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Want to attract beautiful and beneficial pollinators like moths to your garden? Learn about the special relationships that exist between several native plant species and the moths that use them! Explore why native plants are essential to healthy ecosystems, the role of nectar and host plants, and how these insects find the desired host plant species upon which to lay their eggs. This talk will leave you with the knowledge and resources needed to encourage and appreciate a wider diversity of caterpillars and moths in a Texas native plant garden. Encouraging healthy populations of caterpillars will benefit many of the birds you love!
About the Speakers: Both Lynne and Jim Weber are recently retired from 30+ year, accomplished careers at IBM. They are certified Texas Master Naturalists and Lynne is a past president of the Capital Area chapter. The Webers are dedicated naturalists who have been studying Texas natural history since they moved to Austin in 1989. They have served on the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve (BCP) Citizens Advisory Council (CAC) as well as on the boards of the Big Bend Natural History Association, the Big Bend Conservancy, and the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute. They are long-time members of NPSOT (Austin chapter), and their volunteer work includes conducting Golden-cheeked Warbler and Colima Warbler surveys, leading guided hikes, restoring native habitat, mapping and removing invasive plants, and they are stewards of an 8-acre preserve that is part of the BCP. Their nature photography and writing appears on Flickr and on their monthly blog as well as in several nature publications. They have co-authored Nature Watch Austin (2012), Nature Watch Big Bend (2017), Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies (2018, a 2021 NPSOT Carroll Abbott Award Winner), and Native Host Plants for Texas Moths (2022), all published by Texas A&M University Press. The Webers are currently at work on a fifth book, tentatively entitled Naturalist’s Austin: A Field Guide to the Flora and Fauna of Central Texas, highlighting nearly 700 species of plants and animals in the region.
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