Gardening Seminars & Scavenger Hunt Will

Complement Peabody Butterfly & Bird Plant Sale

NEW HAVEN — When the Yale Peabody Museum hosts its fifth butterfly and bird plant sale visitors will notice a few new additions to the annual spring event: seminars, a scavenger hunt and seed planting workshops.

The 5th Annual Butterfly & Bird Plant Sale is scheduled for Saturday, May 13, from 10 am until 3 pm. Events will be inside the museum and outside under a tent.

The sale will have many native and nonnative and noninvasive perennials, annuals and shrubs to provide nectar for adult butterflies, food for butterfly larvae, and seeds and berries for birds.  All proceeds support educational programs.

Visitors can learn about attracting wildlife, butterflies and birds to their gardens in two ways.  Experts will answer questions and explain how to create special wildlife havens. The plant sale will be outdoors, and there is no admission to attend the sale.

Children’s activities include ongoing opportunities to plant seeds and a museum scavenger hunt, which will be available until 1 pm.

Two seminars will also be offered, each presented by experts from their respective fields.

At 11 am is “Creating and Enhancing Wildlife Habitat Using Native Plants.” This will be presented by Peter Picone, a wildlife biologist with the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.

At noon “Plant It and They Will Come: Attracting Butterflies to Your Yard” will be presented by Carol Lemmon, a retired deputy state entomologist and president of the Connecticut Butterfly Association.

Regular museum admission will be charged for access to the children’s activities and seminars – $7 for adults, $6 senior citizens ages 65 and up, and $5 for children and students ages 3-18.

The museum is wheelchair accessible. For additional information visit Peabody.yale.edu or call 203-432-5050.