A large number of people came out last Thursday evening to the sprawling Waste Management property in Falls Township to the pollinator garden for a monarch butterfly tagging event.
The event allowed the public to collect monarch caterpillars from the garden and take them home in a jar with tags, a supply of milkweed, and instructions. Those who were able to capture a monarch caterpillar will be able to watch it develop into a butterfly, plug information to a tracking database, and release the butterfly, which will next head south and possibly as far away as Mexico. (Read more about the garden)
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The pollinator garden and meadow near the landfill at the Penn Warner Club was developed on a 1.5-acre grass field in 2014 along Pennsbury Memorial Road. The garden hosts community groups, school groups, and the public.
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