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10 WAYS TO HELP butterflies

  summer visitors to our gardens, with the exception perhaps of the small and large whites (so-called ‘cabbage whites’). Cultivating nectar-rich flowers is the most obvious way to attract beautiful and charismatic small tortoiseshells and peacocks, but butterflies are more than winged insects. They go through an amazing transformation from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis, before becoming adult butterflies. If we tweak

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