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Butterfly Festival at UT Arboretum in Oak Ridge on July 30

Posted at 5:19 pm July 24, 2016
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Butterfly Festival monarch (Submitted photo)

Butterfly Festival monarch (Submitted photo)

 

Monarch release and UT Insect Zoo are highlights

The University of Tennessee Arboretum Society will present a Butterfly Festival on Saturday, July 30, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the UT Arboretum Auditorium and surrounding grounds at 901 South Illinois Avenue in Oak Ridge.  It is co-sponsored by the UT Forest Resources AgResearch and Education Center. The gate will be open at 8:30 a.m. Coffee and donuts will be sold from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m.

The event, designed for children and adults of all ages, will take place rain or shine. This educational and fun activity features four speakers, two local native plant vendor,s and artisans. Speakers will give their presentations in the air-conditioned comfort of the Arboretum’s new Auditorium. The food vendors, plant vendors, and artisans will be stationed near the Program Shelter. The monarch butterfly release will take place on the patio outside the Auditorium.

The day’s highlight will be the release of 100 butterflies at approximately 2 p.m., in honor of the 50th anniversaries of UTAS and the Arboretum. We invite children to help release the monarch butterflies, which will be offered at a cost of $10 per butterfly. [Read more…]

Filed Under: College, Community, Education, Front Page News Tagged With: A Home for Butterflies, Ann Brown, Avi Askey, Butterfly Bonanza, Butterfly Festival, Chris Mahoney, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, entomology, Institute of Agriculture, Jerome Grant, Kathy Fahey, Kris Light, Lori McAlister, Monarchs and Milkweeds of Tennessee, Our Future Flies on the Wings of Pollinators, Overhill Gardens, Plants for Hummingbirds/Plants for Butterflies – Why Are They Different?, Rita Venable, Tennessee Naturescapes, Thor Eilola, University of Tennessee, University of Tennessee Arboretum Society, UT, UT Arboretum, UT Arboretum Foundation, UT Arboretum Society, UT Forest Resources AgResearch and Education Center, UT Insect Zoo, UTAS

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