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Audubon Community Nature Center Hosting Monarch Butterfly Events August 26-27

WRFA Radio — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 11:07:14 +0000

The Audubon Community Nature Center is hosting two events celebrating monarch butterflies this weekend.

Butterflies and Brews takes place tonight from 6:00 to 800 p.m. and allows participants to learn about the life cycle and migration of the Monarch Butterfly while enjoying some food and beer.

Festivities then continue Saturday with the Monarch Butterfly Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants can walk in a room filled with live butterflies, tour the Audubon’s butterfly garden, attend mini-educational programs on butterflies, and much more. The day concludes at 4 p.m. with all of the butterflies being released.

Admission for Butterflies and Brews is $35 at the door. Admission for the Monarch Butterfly Festival is $8 for adults, $6 for Nature Center members and children ages 3 to 15, and free for children ages 2 and under.

For more information, call (716) 569-2345.

Audubon’s Monarch Butterfly Festival is Saturday

WRFA Radio — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:21:53 +0000

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JAMESTOWN – The Audubon Nature Center will host the 2015 Monarch Butterfly Festival on Saturday, August 29.

From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the Nature Center will celebrate this beautiful creature that is experiencing serious population decline.

Visitors can see Monarchs at various stages of life; watch experts tag the butterflies; and ask questions about raising them, growing milkweed, planting a butterfly garden, and establishing a monarch way-station to help these distinctive travelers.

At 4 p.m. the tagged butterflies will be released to fly to Mexico, where their tags will help scientists track the migration of this rapidly dwindling species.

More festival fun includes tours of the butterfly garden; exhibits of live fish, reptiles, and amphibians; Liberty, the Nature Center’s resident Bald Eagle; the Ted Grisez arboretum; and miles of nature trails.

Festival admission is $8 or $6 for Friends of the Nature Center and children ages 3-15. Two and under are free.

More details of the Festival are can be found at at monarchbutterflyfestival.wordpress.com.

MORNING NEWS – Audubon Hosts Monarch Butterfly Festival

WRFA Radio — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:14:41 +0000

JAMESTOWN – The Jamestown Audubon Center and Sanctuary’s Monarch Butterfly Festival will take place tomorrow at the Audubon’s Riverside Road location.Visitors will have an opportunity to watch the butterflies, see how they are tagged by citizen scientists, hold a caterpillar, and watch them emerge from chrysalises. The tagged butterflies will be released at 4:00 p.m. in a celebration in the butterfly garden. Almost all the monarch butterflies in the Eastern United States fly to very few special spots in the mountains of Mexico.

The 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. festival features Mexican food, crafts, a butterfly plant sale, butterfly nets to borrow, and more. A special monarch t-shirt sale will raise money for Audubon’s education programs. Monarch Butterfly Festival admission is $5 for children and Audubon members, $7 for non-members, free for ages two and under.

The Audubon Center and Sanctuary is at 1600 Riverside Road, off Route 62 between Jamestown and Warren. For more information about Audubon and all its programs, call (716) 569-2345 or visit http://jamestownaudubon.org/.