LAKEVILLE — Monarchs and Milkweed, an educational program about monarch butterflies, will take place 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10 at Lakeville Public Library, 4 Precinct St.

Lakeville resident Sally Spooner, vice president and chairperson of the Bruce Spooner Education Center of the Taunton River Watershed Alliance, will discuss the steps to raising monarch butterflies, the issues surrounding them, what it means to be endangered and steps for growing and protecting milkweed. 

Weather permitting, participants will walk in the library gardens to observe milkweed’s favorite growing conditions.