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April Butterfly Festival |
Shady Oak Butterfly Farm
352-485-2458
12876 Southwest County Road 231
Brooker, FL 32622
April 14, 2007
9:00AM-5:00PM
Butterflies, food, plants, games, vendors, and more!
Festival Information
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Butterflies! Shady Oak Butterfly Farm
Gardening for Butterflies with Edith
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January 26, 2007
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Hello!
Have you started planning your garden and ordering
seed? Is there a plant for which you've search high and
low and cannot locate?
Many butterfly gardens
contain plants which are not easily located for purchase
or transplanting.
As you pour through seed catalogs, remember to check
out seed swaps and free seed offers.
A seed swap or butterfly gardening mailing list is a good
place to ask other gardeners for sources for these hard
to locate seed and plants!
Seed
Exchange Mailing List Signup
Butterfly
Gardeners and Farmers Mailing List Signup
Edith
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What do Buckeye Butterfly Caterpillars Eat?
Buckeye butterfly caterpillars eat many host plants.
A few plants, such as cudweed and butterfly bush, they
tend to eat only when in captivity. Because these are not
their favored host plant, they become
smaller chrysalises and butterflies.
Some host plants they eat at
every chance!
Although often thought
of as drab brown butterflies, their colors are gorgeous
with mixtures of purple, orange, and hints of
blue.
Florida Residents: We offer Buckeye
Vivariums: See the special at the bottom of this
newsletter. Other states: We offer Painted Lady
Vivariums for this months special. See the special at the
bottom of this
newsletter.
More About the Buckeye Butterfly
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What Was THAT?
From a butterfly chrysalis emerges a winged creature which is NOT a butterfly!
Often when an insect emerges from a butterfly chrysalis,
it is NOT a butterfly.
What else emerges from
butterfly
chrysalises?
Dozens of them from one chrysalis ...
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Which Nectar Plant Should I Add To My Garden?
Golden and covered with butterflies.
Gold Lantana is one of the most popular nectar plants in
a garden. American Lady butterflies (pictured)
as well as
Buckeye and every other nectar loving butterfly use this
plant for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and
snacks.
Growing lantana is easy. Some
lantanas seed and become agressive in gardens and/or
in the wild. This lantana is very cooperative and spreads
in a golden mound of color.
Growing Lantana
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