Join Dave Moskowitz for a talk on the Butterflies of East Brunswick and the great Monarch Migration to Mexico.The talk will feature lots of photos of butterflies and their ecology and of two trips to the wintering grounds of the Monarch butterfly in Mexico. Dave has had a life-long interest in butterflies and was the driving force behind the creation of the Butterfly park. He is also the author of the new Friends Online Field Guide to the Butterflies of the Butterfly Park. Dave is also working on his PhD in Entomology at Rutgers studying the life history of the rare Tiger Spiketail dragonfly. His video of his research wonFirst Place in the 2009 Entomological Society of America Youtube video Nationalcontest in the Research Discovery category.He has been an environmental scientist for the past 27 years focusing onecological studies. He lectures widely on butterflies and other natural historytopics and has published extensively on insects, wetlands and wildlife. Davehas always been happy to have found a career that provides ample opportunitiesto wander around fields and meadows and woods and wetlands looking for allkinds of critters.
Parents - bring you children for nature activites during the lecture!