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Butterflies, Butterflies, Butterflies!
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Dan Carino
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Feb 19, 2011
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Butterflies, Butterflies, Butterflies!
Spring's coming and before you know it, Southern Californians everywhere will be pining for butterflies. In preparation for the upcoming season Ilsa Setziol sat down to talk with Brent Karner, resident bug expert at LA's Natural History Museum about butterflies and what we all can do to make our backyards more habitable for America's most beloved insect.
A Giant Swallowtail Butterfly
A Giant Swallowtail Butterfly
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Robert Puster/Wikimedia Commons (see below for link)
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Spring's coming and before you know it, Southern Californians everywhere will be pining for butterflies. In preparation for the upcoming season Ilsa Setziol sat down to talk with Brent Karner, resident bug expert at LA's Natural History Museum about butterflies and what we all can do to make our backyards more habitable for America's most beloved insect.

Spring's coming and before you know it, Southern Californians everywhere will be pining for butterflies. In preparation for the upcoming season Ilsa Setziol sat down to talk with Brent Karner, resident bug expert at LA's Natural History Museum about butterflies and what we all can do to make our backyards more habitable for America's most beloved insect.

(Image by Robert Puster via Wikimedia Commons)