Monday, June 11, 2018

The Butterfly Hotel is open for business--and packed!


We started, several years ago, to assist the butterfly population by nurturing the young specimens indoors. It was slow going.

But this year, the first wave of butterflies (black swallowtails and monarchs) came through and deposited many eggs on our dill and milkweed plants. I rescued as many as I could find. There is hardly any room at "the hotel" now.  That is called "success", I believe.

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