Victor DeMasi, lepidopterist, research affiliate for Yale’s Peabody Museum and NRWA Advisory Board member, has been studying butterflies and moths in the Norwalk River valley since 1977. He will introduce area butterflies and moths and talk about what plants they need to survive and thrive in your yard. Victor lives near the Norwalk River in Redding on an old dairy farm that he has managed as pollinator habitat for over 40 years and where he has watched populations of pollinators change over time. He conducts an annual monarch count and is currently collecting specimens for a new collection of pollinators from this area for the Yale Peabody museum.
