and MICROSOFT POLLINATOR PATIO
Take a walk in a beautiful garden while butterflies fly around you! Molbak’s Butterfly Garden is home to hundreds of free-flying butterflies representing species native to North America. You'll learn about the butterfly's life cycle while watching new butterflies emerge from their chrysalises before flying free in the garden.
Want to attract beautiful butterflies and other pollinators to your own backyard? This garden is full of ideas and actions you can take on behalf of native pollinators such as hummingbirds, beetles, bees and flies. Before you leave, take a sneak peek at the zoo's Silverspot Butterfly Lab where zookeepers and teen volunteers hatch and raise endangered Oregon silverspot butterflies for release into protected wild habitat.
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A Regional Guide for Farmers, Land Managers, and Gardeners in the ecological region of the Pacific Lowland Mixed Forest Province.
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