Don Johnson (center pictured with Rose Ann Acosta and Barbara Thompson), is Master Naturalist and part of the Entomology group with Fort Bend Master Gardeners. He spoke on butterflies and hummingbirds. Don gave some great anecdotes as well as showed terrific pictures he has taken in his garden and elsewhere of hummers, butterflies, chrysalis and caterpillars. And some pretty flowers too.
He and Penny are quite involved in conservation and particularly in saving the Monarch Butterfly, which is quite distressed from weather changes, droughts, floods, pesticides, etc. He encouraged all of us to plant Butterfly and Milkweed as both food for the caterpillars and nectar sources for the butterflies. They cannot survive without it. Please avoid pesticides on these plants as they kill the caterpillars and butterflies. If you have aphids, wash them off with water.
Using a Saint Patrick's Day theme, Barbara Thompson, Pat Jones, Linda Miller, Diana Leggett, and Lynn Ellis had great food. Judy Pasadyn also contributed, but could not attend the meeting.
We had two guests: Rhonda Beavers (left below) and Judy Johnston (right).
Jane Thompson became our newest member . . . you can see her and our latest community service at the rest of the story . . .
Arbor Day, 2014!
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