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Photos: Butterfly release at the Richmond Memorial Library

By Howard B. Owens

Lindsay Kuhn, of Smoke Ridge Organics and Butterflies, visited the Richmond Memorial Library on Friday afternoon for the children's summer reading program. Kuhn brought with her a box of butterflies -- 55 of them stored in wax envelopes ready for release into the wild by the children. After about a 20-minute talk on the different kinds of butterflies, why they're important to the environment and their life cycles, each child was given a butterfly to release.

Amy Vlack

There is a "butterfly project" going on at Harrington's Greenhouse in Elba. They have around 20 monarch butterfly caterpillars along with a few other caterpillars in a terrarium. Three monarchs and a painted lady butterfly are in chrysalises already and another monarch is soon to join them. There is also a journal and a list started marking down all of the butterflies and caterpillars seen in and around the greenhouses.

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