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Gardening for Pollinators

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pollinators. Our choice of plants was guided by the recognition that
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This page, top: Bumble bee (Bombus sp.), by Sjanie Bethlehem; bottom:
White Admiral (Limenitis arthemis), by Melissa Parrott.

Opposite page, top: Monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) on
Milkweed, by Peter Allen; bottom left to right: Ruby-Throated Hummingbird
(Archilochus colubris), by Richard Houde; Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui),
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