Report: Triad Butterfly Group at Environmental Awareness Day
On Saturday, September 27th, the Triad Chapter of the Carolina Butterfly
Society set up an educational display at the UNC School of the Arts
Environmental Awareness Day in Winston-Salem, NC. Despite it being a soggy,
dreary day with intermittent rain most of the day, it was a success and a
nice way to spend the three and a half hours with butterflies when we
couldnšt be outside.
The event was organized by Lois Schneider, a Triad CBS member who is on the
science faculty at UNCSA. She did a great job.
Don Allemann, Gene Schepker, and I staffed our two butterfly tables. As
frequently happens, we seemed to have a lot more people around our display
than some of the other displays. The big attraction, of course, was that we
had live caterpillars and chrysalises. The ŗstar of the show,˛ as Gene put
it, was the habitat with four Saddleback Moth caterpillars. However, the
Monarch and Black Swallowtail cats also attracted a good bit of attention.
We also had several inanimate but interactive parts of the display. Many
people enjoyed looking at the scales on butterfly wings through Jim Nottkešs
microscope. Quite a few people tried their hand at putting together our two
butterfly puzzles. In addition, we had a chart showing the butterfly life
cycle, and a series of photos of a Black Swallowtail laying eggs and the
resulting caterpillars going through the various instars into the chrysalis
stage.
Although the rain and competing activities kept attendance below what was
expected, about 50 students and adults visited our display. Several people
took our membership information, and one couple joined on the spot.
We appreciate being invited to the event and being a part of the UNCSA
Environmental Awareness Day.
Dennis
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Dennis Burnette
Greensboro, NC
deburnette@triad.rr.com
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