Celebrate National Butterfly Awareness Day!

The first National Butterfly Awareness Day will be held on June 6, 2009. Various activities are planned, including live butterfly releases throughout the country, educational events with butterflies in schools, and the planting of butterfly gardens. The Association For Butterflies, the organization that founded this day, will help raise awareness of butterflies throughout the United States. Butterflies are not only aesthetically pleasing, but they are important pollinators. Releasing butterflies is an environmentally-sound activity. Go green! Plant a butterfly garden to attract native species. Contact a butterfly farmer to order butterflies to release on June 6th! See www.forbutterflies.org for more information.