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vo:Students at Bailey's Elementary, a Sustainable Operations partnership school, began planting
in their new butterfly garden. Anne Rosenbaum, Bailey's outdoor science specialist,
explains what wea planted in the garden.
ANNE: This one is called blazing star or Leatris or Leatris. People pronounce it different
ways. I just think this is a fun one. It is also a good nectar source for butterflies.
ANNE:
THis shrub is another nectar source you can see it has these pretty flowers here and a
nice sent to it. It is called plethora. I think another name for it is sweet shrub.
ANNE: So with butterflies when they are the larva, when they are the caterpillar they
have a specific plant that is called a host plant that they eat from. The spice bush swallow
tail only eats the spice bush. Those are the host plant. As an adult they need nectar sources
that's why you have to have both of them.
ANNE: THis is the beginning of the monarch garden and there are three different types
of milkweed plants. We have the tropical milkweed, which is an anual so the tropical milkweed
we will have to replace but appartently the monarchs really love this to lay their eggs
on that. And then we have this one that is very common
around here which is called butterfly ween and se we planted three of those and those
are preenials and those will fill in. And then we have a third type here which will
get even bigger and this one happens to have pretty pink flowers on it.
VO: Students will now get the opportunity to watch how the garden is used by butterflies
during the Monarch Migration to Mexico.