Entries Tagged as 'Butterfly'

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Save the Monarch Butterfly – Create a Monarch Butterfly Waystation

Have TheGardenLady readers ever thought of having their garden become a Monarch butterfly Waystation? Let me explain.
Everyone knows that the Monarch follows a route of migration from Mexico up to Canada in the spring and then returns to Mexico every fall. This is a herculean task and the monarch butterfly needs lots of nutrients [...]

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Sunday, April 5th, 2009

The Western Painted Lady Butterfly

A reader of TheGardenLady blog wrote this column about an exciting happening in California on Sat., March 28, 2009.
If we were questioning the calendar, residents in the Bay Area of California knew for certain that Spring had arrived on Saturday, March 28. By late morning, it was well into the 70s and supposedly some thermometers [...]

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