The  March meeting was on Butterfly Gardens.  The speaker was Rose Hiskes of the CT Agricultural Experiment Station.

This talk introduced the Bird & Butterfly Garden at the Station’s Lockwood Farm in Hamden, gave definitions to some basic terms and then looked at the more common butterflies found in Connecticut.  Images of caterpillars are shown.  Nectar plants for adult feeding and larval food sources for egg laying was presented.  A resource list was handed out along with other pertinent fact sheets.

Black Swallowtail (courtesy of Renee Marsh)

We also covered the Invasive plant of the month:  Norway Maple (Acer platanoides)

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