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Jamaica Gleaner Eye on Science
published: Thursday | December 1, 2005

Turn creepy crawlies into cash
MOST PERSONS like to admire butterflies flitting across the landscape. The large number of butterflies which are seen periodically along Lady Musgrave Avenue and other streets in Kingston are always admired by onlookers.

Your own butterfly garden
MOST OF you may have watched in awe as dozens of butterflies fly on and off a patch of flowers as they feed hungrily on the nectar stored at the base of these flowers. Jamaican children are intrigued by the colours, shape and form of the adults...


A HOUSE MADE JUST FOR BUTTERFLIES
JUST IMAGINE yourself sitting on a bench surrounded by garden beds of white, red, pink and orange impatiens, spikes of closely placed purple-top verbena bonariensis, clusters of red odontonema tubiforme (firespike), rows of round top bright yellow...


Dr. Audette Bailey - Think outside the box
FRESH FROM completing her degree in marine biology and chemistry Audette Bailey was offered a job with a butterfly project. And she duly fell in love. That was in 1990.






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