Harrison says most butterflies will flock to the appropriately named butterfly bush, which is considered a low-maintenance plant.

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The butterfly rearing process starts with farmers catching a few female butterflies and transferring them to an enclosure where they can lay eggs on host plants.

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Like most modern butterfly hikes, our excursion involved catch-and-release identifying: we temporarily encapsulated the unharmed butterflies in specimen tubes, identified them and released them 10 or 15 minutes later.

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