Join us for a presentation on the iconic Monarch Butterfly and which native plants you can have in your yard to welcome pollinators. This presentation chronicles Fatima Matos’s ongoing discovery of real nature up-close in her own backyard. The first part is about the astonishing ‘garden transformation’ observed after planting native plants. Next she will describe the monarch’s metamorphosis and amazing co-evolutional history with milkweed plants and milkweed toxins. Finally, she will focus on the importance of plant diversity for a ‘buffet’ of magnet plants with a high ‘buzzing’ factor for the pollinators.
Fátima Matos is a scientist retired from Pfizer. During her scientific career she worked on medications to treat diseases affecting the central nervous system. After her retirement, her love for birds and butterflies led her into a journey of planting native plants to attract these animals. She does not consider herself an expert on plants or insects, but a nature lover who discovered the joy of gardening with native plants for pollinators and now considers her garden to be her own natural laboratory.
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