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Learn which host plants, cover and native flowers to grow so caterpillars, chrysalises and adult butterflies thrive in your ...

Converting your existing garden into a hummingbird and butterfly garden, or creating a new one, is easy. To attract the greatest number and varieties of native butterflies and hummingbirds, it’s ...

There is a phenomenon going on in the butterfly gardens in our back yards. The Monarch Program in Encinitas has observed through tagging that monarchs hatched in gardens stay in gardens and don’t join ...