Tag: Monarch butterflies
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The Butterfly Effect
Monarch butterflies flock to campus thanks to work of students, facilities Butterfly Flutterby, a landscaping project that supports monarch butterfly populations, is playing host to a large migration of butterflies for the first time as they fly from Canada to Mexico. The project features stations around campus that house a variety of milkweed for the…
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Landscaping project to support dwindling butterfly population
Thousands of monarch butterflies may soon come to campus as part of an ongoing project to cultivate the university’s open fields with their food and shelter supply. Craig Lewis, the greenhouse landscape coordinator for Facilities Management, has been working in the greenhouses planting more than 800 seeds of two different varieties of milkweed that he…