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.- <br />Highway <br />pollinator <br />gardens: <br />• Have no minimum size. <br />• Get at least six hours of <br />sun a day. <br />e Offer native trees, <br />shrubs or flowers, <br />including nectar plants. <br />e Have places for insects <br />to raise young, such as <br />butterfly eggs. <br />® Use no chemical <br />pesticides. <br />Details: www.butterflyhighway.org <br />runners of the Butterfly <br />Highway. <br />"Once it took hold, it <br />seemed like all of a sud- <br />den we started seeing <br />butterflies that we hadn't <br />seen before," Ross said. <br />Neighbors use charts to <br />identify species they see, <br />reporting the data to <br />Hjarding. They also ex- <br />panded their initial work, <br />seeding wildflowers on a <br />vacant acre owned by <br />Piedmont Natural Gas and <br />installing bluebird houses.' <br />"1 call myself a city <br />boy," Ross said, "but <br />that's changing." <br />Bruce Henderson: <br />704 -358 - 5051, @bhender <br />A new Butterfly Highway sign sits high on a screech owl <br />nesting box post. <br />