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A Butterfly - Farm & Wilderness

Written by Kory Mathis | June 28, 2008

To go along with this weeks update, here’s a Monarch butterfly I found resting on a lovely Cow-Parsnip flower. A member of the wild carrot family, cow-parsnip is one that’s edible but easily confused with a poisonous relative. The carrots as a family are ones we teach the campers to avoid until they’re 100% certain about their identification skills.