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Sun City resident builds butterfly backyard

Ken Woolgar stands with his pop-up caterpillar enclosure.

(Independent Newsmedia/Zev Black)

Each year, millions of monarch butterflies make the long migration from Mexico to as far as Canada in search of their favorite plant: milkweed. However, fewer monarchs are flying north than used to.

According to the Center for Biological Diversity, monarch butterfly populations have dropped by more than 80% since the 1990s.

When Sun City resident Ken Woolgar learned about this, he decided to do something about it.

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