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Aficionados miss butterfly's effects

Sharon Stabley

Butterfly Loss

‘It was spooky,’ Pat Sutton says of the scarcity of butterflies from her Middle Township garden all the way to Quebec, Canada. ‘We should have been seeing a lot more of them, and there was one of this, one of that.’

Sharon Stabley

Butterfly Loss

The butterfly population was down this spring and early summer, with some sights across the country recording record-low numbers. A male monarch butterfly feeds on a tropical milkweed flower in Pat Sutton's frontyard garden in Goshen Friday, August 21, 2009.

Sharon Stabley

Butterfly Loss

The butterfly population was down this spring and early summer, with some sights across the country recording record-low numbers. A silver spotted skipper feeds on a sedum in Pat Sutton's backyard butterfly sanctuary in Goshen Friday, August 21, 2009.

Sharon Stabley

Butterfly Loss

The butterfly population was down this spring and early summer, with some sights across the country recording record-low numbers. A tiger swallowtail butterfly drinks from a zinnia in Pat Sutton's backyard butterfly sanctuary in Goshen Friday, August 21, 2009.

Sharon Stabley

Butterfly Loss

The butterfly population was down this spring and early summer, with some sights across the country recording record-low numbers. A red banded hairstreak butterfly sits on mountain mint a native plant in Pat Sutton's backyard butterfly sanctuary in Goshen Friday, August 21, 2009.

Sharon Stabley

Butterfly Loss

The butterfly population was down this spring and early summer, with some sights across the country recording record-low numbers. A spicebush butterfly eats from a native cardinal flower in Pat Sutton's backyard butterfly sanctuary in Goshen Friday, August 21, 2009.

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