Invite butterflies to your yard this season

Summer is coming, and so are butterflies!

Whether you offer a single planter or a whole prairie, you can easily attract these beautiful creatures to your yard.

Join "Everybody Loves Butterflies" at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at the Elgin Public Museum, 225 Grand Blvd. on Elgin's east side.

Learn how to garden for each stage of a butterfly's life cycle and how to entice a variety of species to make your garden home.

You also will learn tips for identifying a few of the most common butterfly visitors and briefly look at the current status of monarch butterfly population.

The presenter Janie Grillo grew up in a family of gardeners and now works for a local plant nursery. She has raised butterflies for 14 years and has tagged monarch butterflies for Monarch Watch since 2002. She also designed and coordinated a butterfly garden at an equine-assisted therapy facility.

No registration is required for this program, so come on down to enhance your garden and check out the new "Butterfly" exhibit.

For details, contact the museum at (847) 741-6655 or Francesca_epm@cityofelgin.org.

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