Butterflies, Flowers and Animals

You Can Help Increase Butterfly Population Increasing butterfly population is a simple process of reclaiming butterfly habitat areas taken over by civilization. These areas include all-grass yards, gardens, vacant lots, road right-of-ways and power line right-of-ways. Once you find an area, devote it to butterflies by planting butterfly plants. There are two groups of plants butterflies require. These are host plants for the caterpillar to eat and nectar flowers for adult butterflies to drink nectar from. For most butterflies, the host plant is limited to just a few plants from the same family. For the Monarch butterfly, the host plant is milkweed. Nectar plants are most flowering plants.

Butterflies, Flowers and Animals My name is Chuck Melvin, I am 77 years old and have Parkinson’s Disease. My wife, Marsha, and I have married for 35 years. We need your help to pay

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I walked within 3 feet of this pygmy rattlesnake; I admit that I don’t see as well as I used to. Marsha photographed it after I went by. She believes

the head is in the middle of the picture, I believe it is at the lower right.

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Marsha’s Creation The Surprise!!This creation was fashioned from “found” items along the Cross Seminole Trail. The hair is an air plant, knocked to the ground after a thunderstorm. The body is a section of dead palm tree trunk with a hole in it where a woodpecker once had a nest. The headband is a strap that was used to stabilize a young tree until it outgrew it. The sunglasses were found alongside the trail with both arms torn off. The butterfly is a Gulf Fritillary that I raised from an egg. It hatched in our house, grew up eating the passion vine leaves I grew for it, became a chrysalis, then emerged as a beautiful Gulf Fritillary. After its wings were fully extended and hardened, I took it outdoors to pose on my Surprise. It was very cooperative and photogenic.

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Lion with a butterfly on his nose

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