Pollinators in your Garden
Program Description:
Sarah will acquaint you with Ohio native pollinators, their role in your garden ecosystem, and ways you can help them flourish without getting stung! Hint: not all of them are bees!
Presenter: Sarah Dalton
Sarah recently retired from Franklin County Metro Parks after a 27-year career as Senior Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park. She became interested in monarchs after raising her first caterpillar at age10 and then expanded on that interest during her career. Monarch Day became Metro Parks? second longest running program and brought the joy of monarchs to thousands of park visitors and teachers? classrooms. She currently serves as the Citizen Science Committee Chairperson (actually the whole committee!) for the Wild Ones Columbus Chapter. She also hosts a Facebook group Monarch Maniacs of Ohio to foster local efforts to conserve the monarch butterfly and its habitat.