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How To Attract Butterflies To Your Garden

May 11th, 2012 | By
How To Attract Butterflies To Your Garden

Butterflies are a natural part of most environments. They are attractive, but also useful insects to have around. Butterflies provide an important food source for other animals. Their eggs are eaten by birds, reptiles, and mammals in the area. These creatures, in turn, also eat other insects and keep their populations in check. Butterflies themselves eat mostly nectar from flowers, which means that they participate in the pollination of flowering plants, a crucial job in most ecosystems. The caterpillars of some species eat pestilent insects, like aphids. As with all components of your local ecosystem,
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Maximizing Bee Pollination

Mar 19th, 2012 | By
Maximizing Bee Pollination

All gardens need to be pollinated, and bees are the usual suspects for this task. Unfortunately, they are seriously lacking in our gardens, as most of us live in urbanized areas. So let’s plant a garden that will invite them in and give them place to live and prosper, and they will make our other gardens yield more produce too. Though we think of pollinators as just the bees and butterflies that visit our gardens, they actually come in many shapes, sizes, and varieties. There are garden-friendly varieties of bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, birds,
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