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Livermore-Amador Valley Garden Club members and guests will learn about local flora and fauna at the presentation, "Mount Diablo: An Island in The Middle of Suburbia," at their Feb. 10 meeting.
Guest speaker will be Michael Marchiano, a lifetime resident of the Bay Area, who takes special interest in correcting urban myths and folklore about wild creatures that live here — especially spiders and snakes. His avocation since childhood has been as a naturalist.
Marchiano photographs wildflowers, native plants, birds, insects, mushrooms and reptiles, and has led outings and done presentations for Mt. Diablo State Park, Save Mount Diablo, Lindsay Wildlife Museum, Audubon and the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Presently he is the resident naturalist for Wild Birds Unlimited in Pleasant Hill and volunteers as a docent/naturalist with the Mt. Diablo Interpretive Association.
Livermore-Amador Valley Garden Club meets at 7 p.m., with the speaker at 7:30 p.m., the second Thursday of the month from September to June, currently online via Zoom. Guests can participate by contacting club president Jeri Stark at jstarkhome@comcast.net. For more information, visit www.lavgc.org.
