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Great Swamp Hosts Butterfly and Milkweed Presentation

Presentation focuses on how plants like milkweed, native to New Jersey, can bring butterflies into your life.

It was a rainy afternoon when nature lovers were invited to a free presentation at the  in Basking Ridge “Sunday with Friends: Butterflies and Native Plants.” 

Rain shortened a heavy tour of the wildlife refuge's new butterfly garden. But attendees were able to learn about butterfly-friendly native plants and identification of butterfly species. The presentation was co-sponsored by the Friends of the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge and the N.J. Native Plant Society.

The Discovery Den at the Helen C. Fenske Visitor's Center was filled to capacity with young and old who learned more about butterflies and milkweed, the unique plant that covers much of our state.

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The new garden with butterfly-friendly native plants is at the Great Swamp refuge at 241 Pleasant Plains Road in Basking Ridge.

Tom Halliwell of Netcong, provided the colorful slide presentation that encompassed the varieties of milkweed plants and the butterflies, dragonflies and other bugs that love them. Halliwell is a former teacher and a member of the North American Butterfly Association. 

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