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Sharing the Outdoors With Friends

Eight-year-old Max Frederick and his friends visit Butterfly Park

Today my friends and I went to and . This is one of my favorite places so I wanted to share it with my friends.  My favorite parts are finding butterflies, climbing trees and looking for the different insects like the Longhorn Beetle.

Matias, Josh, Matthew and I went to climb the Weeping Beech tree. I wanted to show them how you can sit up high and read or just watch everyone. There are lots of other trees to climb at Great Oak park.

Now let’s go onto the Butterfly Park. You can find all sorts of butterflies in Butterfly Park. These are the butterflies we found, Spicebush Swallowtail, Cabbage White, Silver Spotted Skipper and the Coral Hairstreak. But keep this in mind; butterflies aren’t the only things you can find. We found a Red Milkweed Beetle, when you hold them to your ear, you can hear them clicking. You can see bees pollenating the flowers. Lastly, we saw the large Milkweed Bug. I like finding bugs and then looking them up in my field guide.

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Well, until the next park, goodbye!!!


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