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Butterflies Like Wide Buffer Strips with Tall Native Grasses and Broadleaf Plants
Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Reports
  • Diane M. Debinski, Iowa State University
  • William L. Hohman, United States Department of Agriculture
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Abstract
If you want more species of butterflies in your filter strips and other grass buffers, make the buffers wider and plant tall native grasses and broad leaf plants. That’s a key finding of a southwestern Minnesota study on butterfly use of conservation buffers.
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This report is the summary of Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center project # 68-7482-1-777.

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Agricultural Wildlife Conservation Center
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Works produced by employees of the U.S. Government as part of their official duties are not copyrighted within the U.S. The content of this document is not copyrighted.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Citation Information
Diane M. Debinski and William L. Hohman. "Butterflies Like Wide Buffer Strips with Tall Native Grasses and Broadleaf Plants" (2007)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/diane_debinski/56/