Date: 08/20/2002

Number: 1

Our butterfly garden, filled with perennial and annual host and nectar plants, is thriving. Kindergartners work year round in their garden, harvesting seeds, tagging and releasing Monarch butterflies in the fall, raising and releasing Monarch butterlies in spring, designing and planting, etc. In the winter we feed birds and squirrels who live here year round, and watch closely the changes in our garden as cold weather turns warmer and signs of spring catch our eyes. Though the Monarch population has been
low in this area this summer, there are swallotails, whites and sulphurs, skippers, and brushfooted butterflies.

A second garden was begun by students in Kindergarten through Grade 6 students last spring in a traingular area that had been weeds and grass. Now this garden is filled with plants that will attract hummingbirds. Thanks to the students in the Wildlife Habitat Project who met for eight weeks after school to work on this gardening project. Students also built birdhouse

Haverford, PA

Latitude: 40 Longitude: -75.3

Observed by: Ann
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