WEST CAPE MAY – The West Cape May Environmental Commission will host “Milkweeds for Monarchs – Plant it and they will come. Don’t plant it and someday they may not,” a free program & book signing by local naturalist and author, Pat Sutton, April 17 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. at West Cape May Borough Hall, 732 Broadway, West Cape May. Free Pizza will be served before the program.
Monarch butterflies make the most amazing migration of any insect in the world. Join Pat to learn all about their life cycle and journey from Mexico to the U.S. and Canada, and back to Mexico for the winter months. Their future depends on healthy milkweed stands here in the U.S. where their numbers multiply (spring through fall). There are many different and beautiful native milkweeds that you can plant in your own garden or in community gardens to help create a path of milkweed from Mexico to Canada that will benefit Monarchs. Plant it and they will come! Don’t plant it and someday they may not come. This program will also address the many other ways we can help troubled Monarchs, by planting nectar plants like Seaside Goldenrod so important to migrating Monarchs in the fall. Concerns about Tropical Milkweed and OE will also be covered.
Pat and Clay Sutton’s book, How to Spot Butterflies (1999), will be available for purchase and signing after the program as well as other books by Pat and Clay including the landmark book, Birds and Birding at Cape May (Stackpole Books, 2006), the in-depth result of their efforts over many years documenting and protecting the migration and the Cape May area that they so love, How to Spot Hawks & Eagles (1996), and How to Spot an Owl (1994). Please call (609) 884-0780 for more information or to register a large group.
Pat Sutton has keenly studied the natural world for over 30 years, first as the naturalist at the Cape May Point State Park in the 1970s and 1980s and then for 21 years as the naturalist and program director at the Cape May Bird Observatory (1986 to 2007). Today Pat is a free-lance writer, photographer, naturalist, educator, lecturer, tour leader, and wildlife garden consultant. Sutton’s own wildlife garden is a “teaching garden” featured in programs and workshops she teaches and is included on many tours, including tours of private wildlife gardens that she has led for twenty-three years. For more information go to: www.patandclaysutton.com
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