Potapaug Audubon Presents ‘Planting for Pollinators’ at Monthly Meeting Tonight in Old Lyme; All Welcome

Shaun Roche, Visitor Services Manager at the Stewart B. McKinney Widlife Refuge, will speak on ‘Planting for Pollinators,’ March 5.

OLD LYME — Potapaug Audubon will hold their next monthly meeting Thursday, March 5, at 7 p.m. at the Old Lyme Memorial Town Hall, 52 Lyme St. All are welcome to this seventh presentation of the season. Come early for cheese, crackers and cider, and catch-up conversations.

The guest speaker will be Shaun Roche, who is the Visitor Services Manager at the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, where he focuses on education and outreach.  His topic will be, ‘Planting for Pollinators: Using Native Plants to Attract Butterflies and Bees.’

Roche grew up in Waterbury and attended Central Connecticut State University where he earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public history. He worked for the National Park Service at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, New York for more than six years before transferring to the Fish and Wildlife Service and coming back to Connecticut in 2011.

For more information about Potapaug Audubon, visit http://www.potapaugaudubon.com

For more information about the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, visit https://www.fws.gov/refuge/stewart_b_mckinney

For more information about the specific topic, visit https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/AttractingPollinatorsV5.pdf

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