The Rose Garden Club of Medina invited Cathy Downs of Kerrville to speak at their monthly meeting at the Medina Community Library on Wednesday, January 13. Downs is an award-winning Monarch butterfly conservation specialist with monarchwatch.org out of Kansas Her talk drew over 30 garden club members and visitors to the library to hear about Monarch butterfly conservation through the cultivation of native plants and flowers. Beginning with a description of Monarch butterflies and their life cycle, Downs reported that of the 600 eggs laid by a typical female Monarch butterfly only three percent (18) of those make it to the caterpillar ...