Today's fun filled post is about butterflies, specifically, Monarch Butterflies. From I understand, there has been a decline of the Monarch butterfly population in the past few years, and Monarch Watch is a good place to learn how you can help stop the decline.
My town is doing it's part to help with the decline, as I discovered over the July 4th holiday weekened when I went bike riding. I took well over three dozen photos that day, and for today's post, I would like to present a little montage of that Monarch butterfly waystation.
Here is the original sign describing it.
And I decided to get a close up so that you could read what is written on the sign.
The rest of the shots are of the various flower beds that they planted and developed. I will tell you that they did a very good job of reclaiming this land next to the public library and creating a little bit of an open space out of what used to be a couple of houses.
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I did not see any butterflies that day, but I did see a few moths. All of these pics were taken on either end of the flowerbeds, as I didn't feel comfortable tying to walk between them. In all of them you can see that they planted all kinds of flowers and other assorted fauna, and in the bottom, you can see a partial pallet of soil and fertilizer for them.
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Oh I was looking forward to seeing the butterflies! Ha. You'll have to go back again, ready with your zoom lens. It's good that they are doing something to encourage butterflies back, they are beautiful insects, as long as they aren't the size of my head, then the creep me out a bit.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely sounds like a very good idea. I thought it was really cook for my town to do something like this. While it isn't necessarily a "green" town, we do have people who are passionate about the rural nature (i.e open space and working farms) of Newington.
DeleteThat's nice they built those for the Monarchs. You'll have to find out when they migrate through your area and go back for pictures.
ReplyDeleteMost definitely. It is a pretty good waystation that they put together.
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DeleteThat's lovely! It's a beautiful scene, even without the butterflies. I think it's a bit early in the season for Monarchs. I'm sure they'll show up a little later in the summer.
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DeleteIt could be, as I'm not quite sure when the season actually starts for Monarch butterflies.
That's very cool. I'm trying to grow clover in my back patio area to attract bees, which as you probably know are also having problems.
ReplyDeleteNewington has always had that rural mentality, so this goes hand in hand with their open space/local farms mentality.
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