KU’s Monarch Watch
- Apr. 26, 2012
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Photos from inside KU Monarch Watch’s butterfly garden and facilities at Foley Hall
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- A female Tiger Swallowtail prepares to land on some sturdy foliage in order to lay her eggs Wednesday afternoon in the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West campus. The butterfly garden is open to the public and provides shaded benches and picnic tables and encourages students to enjoy the garden as a place to relax or eat lunch. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A female Tiger Swallowtail flexes her abdomen as she lays her eggs in a flowering bush inside the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West campus on Wednesday afternoon. The butterfly garden, created and maintained by KU’s Monarch Watch, attracts a variety of butterflies and other insects in addition to monarchs. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A Painted Lady butterfly rests on some colorful blossoms in the butterfly garden created by KU’s Monarch Watch behind Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Butterfly gardens create a needed food source for the dwindling butterfly population. To create your own butterfly garden be sure to include plants like chive, catnip, butterfly bush, milkweed, and dill. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly drinks from the blossom of a catnip plant outside in KU Monarch Watch’s butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West campus. The garden sustains a variety of butterfly and insect species in addition to monarchs. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A butterfly in the Pieridae family shares a daisy plant with a bee Wednesday afternoon in the KU Monarch Watch butterfly garden outside Foley Hall in West campus. Ku Monarch Watch, headed by Dr. Orley Taylor, promotes the cultivation of butterfly gardens which provide a needed food source for butterflies, whose natural habitat is being depleted by land development. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly tops to feed on a chive blossom outside in the KU Monarch Watch butterfly garden behind Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The butterfly garden is always open to visitors and provides shaded benches and tables to encourage students to enjoy the garden as a place to relax or eat lunch. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A Painted Lady butterfly stops to feed on the bloom of a catnip plant outside in the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall, home to KU’s Monarch Watch, on Wednesday afternoon. Creating your own butterfly garden is fairly easy and helps to sustain the butterfly population which suffers due to loss of habitat. Make sure to include many varieties of flowering plants like butterfly bush, and catnip. Plants like milkweed and dill are popular foods for butterfly larvae. Softly gurgling water also helps to attract butterflies to your garden. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- Monarch butterflies gather to drink and mate inside the mating mating station inside Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Foley Hall is home to KU’s Monarch Watch, a program dedicated to education, conservation, and research of monarch butterflies headed by Dr. Orley Taylor. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- Seth Haines, an employee of Westar Energy, helps unload a truck-full of milkweed plants, grown by Lawrence Gardner High School: the high school serving the students housed at the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex, at Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Monarch larvae feed exclusively on milkweed plants. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- Two cloudless sulphur butterflies gather Wednesday afternoon on a catnip blossom in the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West Campus created and maintained by KU’s Monarch Watch. Monarch Watch promotes the cultivation of butterfly gardens to help sustain the butterfly population which continues to suffer from loss of habitat due to development of land. Photo by: Claire Howard
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- A female Tiger Swallowtail hovers delicately on the foliage of a flowering bush as she lays two or three of her eggs in the butterfly garden outside Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The garden, created and maintained by KU’s Monarch Watch, provides a very necessary source of food for butterflies who’s population is dwindling due to loss of their natural habitat. Photo by: Claire Howard
