The Busy Butterfly
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An actual look at a number of butterflies in active pursuit of food in a home garden. This inspires one to discover these beautiful members of nature in your garden.
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About the Book
THE Busy Butterfly is a photo journey with butterflies visiting his butterfly garden as they seek food. Many people enjoy watching , but rarely have time to watch and photograph them. Fortunately, our butterfly and vegetable gardens are very popular with the butterflies, and also provide an opportunity to observe them. Once this observation started, it was amazing to learn how many butterflies were in the area Thus was born the idea of collecting photos of them and their interaction with flowers. This feeding is an important step in the life cycle of butterflies.
About the Author
H F Cantrell has a lifetime interest in nature which started during his teen years while working summers on his father's farm. There he learned about plants and disease control. This interest continued throughout college and graduate school where he focused on microbiology and biochemistry. This lead to a career in medical microbiology and further into biochemistry and metabolism study of microorganisms. He spent his final working years in the pharmaceutical industry studying the biochemistry of bacterial resistance to antibiotics. Currently, he maintains his interest in nature by gardening flowering plants and watching birds.