At the Refuge…again!

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Alexandra, Noelia and I sure worked up a sweat today! After helping Al and Peter with the baby purple martins, we chopped down a lot of old milkweed. The Refuge has a very nice garden in front of the visitors’ center. There was tons and tons of milkweed there this year, but it has gone to seed and needed to be cut back. If we want monarchs to lay eggs here this summer and fall, they need fresh milkweed leaves. The milkweed we cut back was also covered with aphids. Aphids are a very strange and interesting insect that lives off the milkweed plant.alexandraalexandra2alexandra4alexandra5

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