BRINGING NATURE TO YOUR BACKYARD
Bringing Nature to Your Backyard
Monday – April 25, 2016
Bringing Nature to Your Backyard
Location: First United Methodist Church
505 W. Marvin Ave., Waxahachie, TX
Family Life Center - Gathering Room
Indian Trail Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist
• 6:00 PM - Business Meeting
• 7:00 PM - Program by Xandra Morris – Entomologist and Extension Agent
for Hill & McLennan Counties
Born and raised in Katy, TX, Xandra Morris earned a B.S. and M.S. in Entomology from Oklahoma State University. While there, Xandra served as a Presenter and Husbandry worker for the OSU Insect Adventure - Oklahoma's Live Bug Traveling Zoo.
Xandra’s Master's work was on biocontrol - insecticide effects on ladybug predators of aphids; study on herbicide effects on mosquito population; beneficial termite descriptive report. She is currently working on sugarcane aphid population monitoring studies in sorghum.
Xandra is married to Cade Morris, another Entomologist, and they have 4 "children" - two dogs and two cats!
Indian Trail Chapter is part of the statewide Texas Master Naturalist Volunteer Program of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service.
The Mission …to develop a corps of well-informed volunteers to provide education, outreach, and
service dedicated to the beneficial management of natural resources and natural areas within
their communities.
This program is part of a series of “no cost” “open to the public” Master Naturalist programs offered the fourth Monday (generally) of each month, 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Please bring a friend! For more information, please call the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension at 972-825-5175 or email: information@itmnc.com
