Description
Nature creates biodiversity where different butterfly species seek a variety of different host plants to lay their tiny eggs, and butterflies do love diversity! Common milkweed is the favored host plant for female monarch butterflies to lay their eggs while female tiger swallowtails seek tulip poplar trees as their go-to host plant.
Join the UT Arboretum Society via Zoom on Thursday, August 6, 7pm EDT as Michelle Campanis, education coordinator at the University of Tennessee Arboretum, and naturalist/author Stephen Lyn Bales give us a look at monarchs, zebra swallowtails, blue azures, gulf fritillaries and painted ladies. We will discuss the host plants you can add to your home landscape to support these all-star pollinators.
The class is free, but you must register to receive the Zoom link. If you are unable to watch at the scheduled time, the program will be recorded and sent to everyone who registers. Closed captions are available. For questions or registration issues contact Michelle at mcampani@utk.edu.
This Thursday Nature Supper Club presentation is co-sponsored by the UT Arboretum Society (UTAS) and the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) as part of their ongoing Citizen Science Birding Program.me
PHOTO CAPTION: A gorgeous female gulf fritillary at the exact moment she's laying an egg on her host plant, passionflower vine. Photo by Stephen Lyn Bales.
Date & Time
Thu, Aug 6, 2026 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM