Monarch Butterfly Migration Mapping and Waystation Open House
This is a family-friendly event with educational topics for all ages. Come learn all about Monarch butterflies!
Date and time
Location
1681 Hillview Rd
1681 Hillview Road Pinon Hills, CA 92372Agenda
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Arrival
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Ask an Expert
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Migration Program Sign-up and Milkweed Giveaway
About this event
- 2 hours
This is a family-friendly event with educational topics for all ages! Come enjoy the morning and learn about monarchs and other species of butterflies and how to help them.
A large display will be available for interactive learning in our Discovery Center with a variety of live host plants, caterpillars, and chrysalis.
Ask an expert: Enjoy a planting demonstration from expert gardener Greg Charpentier from 10 am to 12 pm and learn how you can create your own butterfly garden at home. Greg has been landscaping and gardening for 35 years and has a wealth of knowledge.
Our monarch expert Gina Charpentier will be teaching us about native milkweed and monarch migration tracking. She will illustrate how to participate in a community science project that anyone can do to help scientists track and help monarchs. Gina has worked with California State San Luis Obispo and the University of Georgia to receive training on monarch tagging, and OE monitoring and reporting. She has also actively contributed to native milkweed surveys and monitoring, as well as extensive public education about monarch preservation via Girl Scout training and projects and other public events.
Participants that sign up for the Monarch Migration Mapping Project will receive (3) one-gallon milkweed plants (per household) to start their own garden at home, $36 Value (While supplies last).
Attendees of previous Monarch events are pictured above, learning about butterflies, with the Roberta Dewey Discovery Center in the background.
The inside of the Discovery Center, with lots of milkweed and educational displays about how to make your own pollinator garden.
Showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) in bloom. This is a native milkweed and a main food source for Monarch caterpillars.
Frequently asked questions
This event will take place at the Roberta Dewey Discovery Center in Puma Canyon Ecological Reserve.
Parking is not available at the Discovery Center. Parking will be available at Transition Habitat Conservancy's office shown on the location map for the event. A shuttle will be available, and those who wish to hike into the preserve are also welcome.
There is a porta-potty onsite at the Discovery Center.
Snacks, plenty of water, comfortable shoes, a hat, sunscreen, clothing layers to be comfortable, and a camera!
There will be some shade available inside the Discovery Center, as well as the outdoor front portion of the Center. Seating will be limited but there is some available in the shade at the front of the Discovery Center.
This is a great chance to meet your community members who have a passion for nature and people learning about nature. There will be lots of opportunity to mingle, as well as participate in an informal outdoor classroom setting.