Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Meet Your Greens

 Backyard Bugs: A Photographic Tour
with Brian Stewart
This Thursday, October 15 at 5:30 pm

Meet Your Greens is back from hiatus! For one very special session, The Rockfall Foundation will be hosting Meet Your Greens outdoors at Wadsworth Mansion. Our guest speaker is Brian Stewart. He will be introducing us to the tremendous diversity of insects you can find in your own backyard. With beautiful photographs taken on his own quarter acre in Middletown, come explore the intriguing world of insects. He has catalogued 430+ insect species so far, with over a hundred more that have not yet been identified. Walk away with an understanding of your role as a steward for these creatures whose “right” it is to be there.

Locust Borer

We will meet on the back patio at the mansion under an open-sided tent. Appropriately spaced chairs will be provided for the presentation. Plan to arrive around 5:30, with the speaker beginning at 5:45. Free to participate. Safety protocol for COVID-19 will be adhered to, so pre-registration is required. To learn more about the speaker, and to register visit our website.

Twice-Stabbed Lady Beetle
Pictured top to bottom: Locust Borer; Twice-Stabbed Lady Beetle

For those of you not familiar with Meet Your Greens: Middletown Green Drinks, this monthly event (on temporary hiatus due to the pandemic) provides networking opportunities for anyone who is interested in making connections and exchanging news about emerging environmental issues to help keep Lower Connecticut River Valley communities green. An official location of Green Drinks International, this informal monthly gathering of people drawn from the community, nonprofit groups and the business world offers time to brainstorm ideas and plant seeds for collaboration. All are welcome and there is no admission fee, unless otherwise noted. For more information, please visit our website.



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