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Enjoy outdoor gardens every day of the week at Botanical Gardens; if it rains, see exhibits inside Posted on www.buffalo-niagaragardening.com July 8, 2014 Explore the outdoor gardens at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. Photo by Connie Oswald Stofko Check out the coleus showpiece. Perhaps you can take this idea and do it on a smaller scale in your garden. Photo by Connie Oswald Stofo by Connie Oswald Stofko Do you realize you can visit gardens every day of the week in Western New York? There are garden walks as part of the National Garden Festival every weekend through...

Buffalo News - City & Region By Lisa Khoury | News Staff Reporteron June 8, 2014 - 6:20 PM, updated June 9, 2014 at 8:20 AM Liz Wheeler keeps butterfly pins, pictures and statues in and around her West Seneca home. The life of the insect – which starts as a caterpillar, becomes a butterfly and then lays eggs to renew the cycle – is symbolic for her family. Her grandmother Jean, who died a few years ago, loved butterflies. “When she started with cancer, they became a symbol of her changing life,” Wheeler said as tears filled her eyes....

The Botanical Gardens is opening their new Native Butterfly Exhibit with a fun family event, Monarch Madness, on June 8 from 10am-5pm. This event will welcome monarchs and other native butterflies to their new exhibit at the Botanical Gardens which will be on display for several weeks this summer. Kid and family friendly butterfly and pollinator activities will take place including; Noodle Life Cycle crafts, Very Hungry Caterpillar crafts, Butterfly Finger Puppets, Pollinator Passport Games and more. Visitors can make friends with butterflies and walk through an enclosure set up inside the Botanical Gardens with the folks from the Eastern...

We are a Blue Star Museum! Frequently Asked QuestionsWhat is Blue Star Museums?Blue Star Museums is a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to the nation’s active duty military personnel including National Guard and Reserve and their families from Memorial Day, May 26, through Labor Day, September 1, 2014.Which museums are participating?More than 2,000 (and counting) museums in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa are participating in Blue Star Museums. These include children's museums,...

Buffalo News - City & Region - Sunday - May 3, 2014 by Matthew Spina | News Staff Reporter With a “waggle-dance” in the hive, honeybees signal to their work mates how to find the flower patch out there that will provide their food. But who can waggle-dance clearly, or forage for nectar, when drunk on powerful pesticides? “I think ‘being drunk’ is a good analogy because they are just not as productive,” said Reed M. Johnson, an entomology professor from Ohio State University and a guest of honor – second only to the honeybees themselves – at a special...