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Austin Butterfly Forum’s April General Meeting & Plant Swap
April 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Ft. Guest Speaker Matt Pintar!
Join ABF for the April General Meeting — starting this month, we will be hosting a plant swap! Please bring host and nectar plants to share with others and bring home something new for your garden. We will also have a wish list to help facilitate future swapping.
Doors open for socializing at 6:45. Meetings are free and open to the public.
Speaker Topic: The Florida Everglades is one of the world’s most unique wetland ecosystems but underwent extensive hydrologic modification during the 20th century that threatened the animals iconic to the ecosystem. Biological monitoring programs were established in the 1990s to track ecosystem health and progress towards goals as the ecosystem undergoes the largest ecosystem restoration project in history. These monitoring programs have led to a detailed understanding of the relationships between hydrology and aquatic animal populations while also documenting interactions with predator populations and human modification to the landscape.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Matthew Pintar is the Senior Entomologist with BIO-WEST, Inc and formerly a Postdoctoral Associate at Florida International University. He broadly studies the ecology and systematics of aquatic Coleoptera and Heteroptera. This includes research on the federally listed invertebrates endemic to the Edwards Aquifer, the effects that predators have on shaping water beetle assemblages, and the evolution of water striders and other aquatic true bugs.
This event is hybrid – please click here to access the Zoom meeting.
