[Michlib-l] SOS: Save Our Swallowtails In-Person Program Saturday @ Commerce

[Alexis Shirk]

Join us Saturday, July 31st @ 2 pm for LIVE BUTTERFLIES at the Commerce
Township Community Library!

It is common knowledge that the Monarch Butterfly relies on milkweed as the
critical larval food plant that ensures future generations. However,
Michigan's swallowtails - four equally large and beautiful butterfly
species, but much less acknowledged - each also rely on their own specific
larval food plants to reproduce. With the use of beautiful Powerpoint
images and live specimens Jim McGrath of Nature Discovery will discuss the
life cycles of Black, Spicebush, Tiger and Giant Swallowtails, including
how to find their ornately-colored and patterned caterpillars in the wild,
how to rear them safely to adult form, and what to provide in your yard to
sustain adult swallowtails and caterpillars, alike. Discussion will include
several other Michigan-native lepidopterans, their larvae and food plants,
as well.

Registration is required.

https://tinyurl.com/ucy9u6pc
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Alexis Shirk
Adult Services Librarian
Commerce Twp. Community Library
Phone: 248-669-8108 x121

"In principle and reality, *libraries* are life-enhancing palaces of
wonder."
-Gail Honeyman, *Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine*

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