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Younger students have been using the outdoor classroom areas to talk and play games, while others have been watching figeater beetles and butterflies visit flowering trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026

It was an unlikely project for a busy news executive, wife and mother who knew little about butterflies, and Ms. Korsgaard wasn’t initially sure why she’d assigned herself the challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The team found 111 relevant studies involving butterflies in Bangladesh.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

Like the fragile butterflies that flitter around Alicent after Helaena’s death, she was too good for all of this nonsense.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

The Adam’s apple or the charley horse or the butterflies in the stomach.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff




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