The students from the Louisville Nature Center's Swallowtail Forest School got to meet nine swallowtail butterflies.
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Students at a Louisville nonprofit focused on forest education and restoration fostered three caterpillars that formed into Monarch Butterflies.
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To help encourage population growth in recent years, Lahm and the Louisville Zoo have planted milkweed on site.
The Arts Alliance of Southern Indiana opened the garden on East Market Street.
The Zoo's annual event involves releasing 1,000 monarch butterflies, and coincides with their seasonal migration to central Mexico during the winter months.
Butterflies soared at the New Albany Riverfront Amphitheater during the festival, which was organized by the Art Alliance of Southern Indiana.