I logged onto the Internet where I went to my favorite spot, "Northern Prairie wildlife Research Center" at www.npwrc.usgs.gov and there are 102 types of butterflies listed as living in San Luis Obispo County. Click on resource finder, enter butterflies and click on butterflies of North America. They have photographs of hundreds of butterflies. It is very educational.
While searching for more butterfly information on the Internet, I came across the Web site for our local Daniel Boone Butterfly Palace at www.butterflypalace.org and was happy to see progress is being made on the butterfly palace. It will be a combined research and tourist attraction planned on 290 acres right here in Nipomo.
Sheila Boone is the director at PO Box 1710, Nipomo. The phone number is 929-0887. I think the public needs education on butterflies. The Pismo Beach Butterfly preserve of Highway 1 offers education and observation of the Western Monarch. The Monarch is the only butterfly that migrates. Large numbers arrive as early as October in Pismo Beach and can be observed in the eucalyptus grove until late February.
Wildlife writer Dorothy Tallman can be contacted through the Adobe Press at (805) 489-4206.
S. Boone Productions, Siamak Sehat, Photographer