Pat Sutton is an amazing naturalist and educator with a passion for teaching people to create welcoming habitats for wildlife in our gardens. Her own garden is a beautiful testament to this passion, as it is always full of swirling butterflies, diving hummingbirds, gorgeous Goldfinches, acrobatic dragonflies, and all manner of other life.
This year, however, Pat has noticed that butterfly numbers have declined precipitously from past years. Pat is a founding member of the North American Butterfly Association and has participated in their annual butterfly counts for more than 20 years. This years counts are showing an alarming trend to fall-offs in butterfly numbers by more than 50 percent. Watch as Pat discusses this issue:
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