A butterfly garden provides food and shelter to other animals as well as to insects. These animal visitors include spiders, squirrels, frogs, and humans. Visit our animal "family album" to see the diversity of animals that we have seen in the Black Hawk College Butterfly Garden starting in 1999.


Spiders - Order Araneae

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Date of Image: 27 August 1999
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Date of Image: 29 August 1999
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Date of Image: 30 June 2000
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Date of Image: 28 August 2000
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Date of Image: 14 August 2001
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Date of Image: 7 August 2002
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Date of Image: 7 August 2002

Daddy-long-legs - Order Opiliones

Common Name: Brown Daddy-long-legs
Scientific Name: Phalangium opilio
Date of Image: 30 June 2000
Common Name: Brown Daddy-long-legs
Scientific Name: Phalangium opilio
Date of Image: 30 June 2000
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Date of Image: 9 July 2001

Worms - Order

Common Name: Earthworm
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Date of Image: 6 July 2000

Birds - Order

Common Name: Robin
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Date of Image: 6 June 2001

Mammals - Order

Common Name: Rabbits (immature)
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Date of Image: 25 June 2001


Butterfly Garden web pages maintained by Richard Harwood.
All images, unless otherwise noted, are the property of the Butterfly Garden Project at Black Hawk College and may only be reproduced with permission from the authors.