Butterflies are free: Greensburg Garden Center holds its annual release
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Kaylee Kauffman, 8, of New Stanton holds her newly hatched butterfly during the annual butterfly release at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden on Saturday, Aug 14, 2021. About 200 butterflies were released.
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Cameron Houser, 6, unfolds a envelope with a newly hatched butterfly at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden on Saturday, Aug 14, 2021. The annual butterfly release was funded by the Second Chance Fund of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County. About 200 butterflies were released.
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A fritillary butterfly pulls nectar from a buddleia butterfly bush at the Greensburg Garden Center’s butterfly garden on Friday, Aug 13, 2021.
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Aleena Amati, 9, of Chareroi takes a look at her newly hatched butterfly at the annual butterfly release at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden on Saturday, Aug 14, 2021. There were 200 butterflies released.
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Liz Ferri of Export holds a buddleia butterfly bush bloom as a Monarch butterfly collects nectar at the Greensburg Garden Center’s butterfly garden on Friday, Aug 13, 2021.
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A 6-week-old Monarch caterpillar is getting ready to form a chrysalis at the Greensburg Garden Center on Friday, Aug 13, 2021.
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A newly hatched butterfly lands on a child’s hand during at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden on Saturday, Aug 14, 2021. There were 200 butterflies released.
Louis B. Ruediger | Tribune-Review
A Monarch butterfly collects nectar from a buddleia butterfly bush bloom at the Greensburg Garden Center butterfly garden on Friday, Aug 13, 2021.
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There were 200 butterflies released Saturday at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden.
The annual butterfly release was free this year, thanks to funding from the Second Chance Fund of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County.
The event included a marketplace of butterfly-related items and displays of books and other educational materials. Diana Sanner of Murrysville was scheduled to give a short puppet program on the monarch’s lifecycle. Turner Dairy Farms provided free lemonade.
Butterfly experts say there’s a trick to getting butterflies to alight on you once they’re released: just dab a little vanilla behind your ears.
For more information log onto greensburggardencenter.net.