Temecula Creek Golf Club welcomes flighty guests with new butterfly habitat

TEMECULA – Temecula Creek Golf Club made conditions inviting for the flightiest of guests, monarch butterflies. In three separate areas of the 27-hole, 150-acre golf course, the butterfly variety, whose population has dwindled more than 90% in the past 20 years, will find 8,000 square feet of new habitat. Not that butterflies are counting the number of square feet, though it does amount to more than 20 milkweed plants, a flora species that acts as the single food source for the insects before they enter their metamorphosis.The idea for the butterfly habitat came from Temecula Creek Golf Club’s superintendent, Brett Wininger. After reading information about the Monarchs in the Rough program, Wininger set about getting approval, which he quickly received, to plant areas with milkwe
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