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9/28/2014

tour of butterfly Gardens

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Today members of our crew visited the marvelous Hallberg Butterfly Gardens, a beautiful site whose wide variety of plants attract butterflies and host caterpillars. We learned much about our ship's namesake, including these facts:

  • A butterfly makes a chrysalis, which means it sheds its skin to reveal another skin, whereas a moth builds a cocoon out of silk thread.
  • The only sure difference between a moth and a butterfly are that butterflies have little round balls at the end of their antennae, whereas moths' antennae are straight.
  • Eastern Monarchs migrate to Mexico over 4 generations of butterflies, which means they must find their host plant, milkweed, along the way. 
  • There are different types of milkweed, and it is important to plant the kind native to an area.

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