Butterflies are free: Greensburg Garden Center holds its annual release

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Butterflies are free: Greensburg Garden Center holds its annual release

Louis B. Ruediger | Saturday, August 14, 2021 2:26 p.m.

Louis B. Ruediger | Tribune-Review

Kaylee Kauffman, 8, of New Stanton holds her newly hatched butterfly during the annual butterfly release at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden on Saturday, Aug 14, 2021. About 200 butterflies were released.

There were 200 butterflies released Saturday at the Greensburg Garden Center’s Lefevre Butterfly Garden.

The annual butterfly release was free this year, thanks to funding from the Second Chance Fund of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County.

The event included a marketplace of butterfly-related items and displays of books and other educational materials. Diana Sanner of Murrysville was scheduled to give a short puppet program on the monarch’s lifecycle. Turner Dairy Farms provided free lemonade.

Butterfly experts say there’s a trick to getting butterflies to alight on you once they’re released: just dab a little vanilla behind your ears.

For more information log onto greensburggardencenter.net.

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