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An Eastern Tiger Swallowtail lands on a butterfly bush in the REsolve Studios Westside Gardens Monday. “Unfortunately, Ohio has lost some 30 percent of its butterfly and moth population in the last 20 years,” said Phillips. “One of the reasons for that is if you want butterflies, you have to allow caterpillars to eat your plants and we often spray our plants so they don’t get eaten but that wipes out the next generation of butterflies.” These visitors are likely to be seen during naturalist tours hosted during Harmar Days between the partnership of the Green Sanctuary partnering project between Phillips’ peers at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, Passiflora, and the Historic Harmar Bridge Company at HHBC Maple Street property, and leading to the riverbank pollinator garden above the Harmar Docks below the Gilman United Methodist Church along the Muskingum River.

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