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74Second Annual Butterfly Festival in Cole, Oklahoma
These bright orange flowers are "Orange Profusion" zinnias and butterflies love their nectar. They, among many other specific flowers are purposely planted to feed the butterflies on their stop to Mexico....
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78Wildlife in the Tenerife Garden
The garden can be an excellent refuge for many forms of animal, and Tenerife has a fascinating range of unusual creatures that may find their way into yours. Everyone loves to see colourful butterflies...
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72Recycled plastic water bottles help Monarch Butterfly conservation
Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have been having a hard time of it in many areas of the world. Habitat destruction, pesticides and lack of their foodplants have all taken a heavy toll, and even pollen...
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67Things To Do In And Around San Luis Obispo
Well, if you are coming to San Luis Obispo for a weekend getaway, I suggest you arrive on Thursday.
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67Mexico's Magnificent Monarchs
Teetering twixt timber interests and ecologists With no little relief, I have turned from writing about creepy-crawlies such as spiders, scorpions and centipedes, interesting and valuable as they are....
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57Something nasty in the process of change
Metamorphosis is the title of a story by Franz Kafka about a man who wakes up to find he has turned into a cockroach, and the word means some sort of transformation. Insects all go through different stages...
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55Butterfly Tattoos
Butterfly tattoos are the most popular tattoo design for women all over the world. Women from all walks of life choose the butterfly for their body art to signify the belief that they are free-spirits,...
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76One year in the backyard
This hub was getting so large it was beginning to slow down. So I've continued the narrative in a hub, One Year in the Backyard, Part II. Check out the latest there. A blue jay scans the yard from a dead...
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65Butterfly farming on a balcony
Earlier this year I wrote about my one-man conservation project to help the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) here on Tenerife and I managed to rear nine to their glorious adult form feeding them on plants...
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78The Tenerife butterfly and moth rescue team
In past issues of the Tenerife Sun I have written about my ongoing project to help increase the numbers of the beautiful Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on the island, and I am very happy to say that I...
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