Join the 6th International Monarch Monitoring Blitz!
From July 29 to August 7, join the 6th International Monarch Monitoring Blitz! Every year, thousands of volunteers in Canada, MexicoContinue Reading
Category: Butterflies
Good News About Monarch Butterflies!
Over several years, the media have been warning home gardeners that a favorite butterfly, the monarch (Danaus plexippus), is inContinue Reading
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Sow Your Own Mini Butterfly Garden!
Here’s a little family project for this summer: Sowing your own butterfly garden! By Larry Hodgson Summer is fast approaching,Continue Reading
How to Recognize Butterfly Flowers
By Larry Hodgson Like all good pollinators, butterflies have preferences about the flowers they visit. In particular, most are lessContinue Reading
Moths: The Forgotten Pollinators
Moths often pollinate the same flowers as bees, but at night. Photo: Aditidutttyagi10, Wikimedia Commons One side of the LepidopteraContinue Reading
My Favorite Butterfly Magnet
Eastern swallowtail butterfly visiting Phlox paniculata ‘Jeana’. Photo: mtcubacenter.org I grow a lot of plants that attract butterflies, but myContinue Reading
Monarchs Arrive in Europe!
The famous migratory butterfly, the monarch (Danaus plexippus), is native to North and Central America and northern South America. (ElsewhereContinue Reading
Plant More Than Milkweeds to Save Monarchs
In North America, the serious decline of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), the black-veined orange migratory butterfly that winters inContinue Reading
Which Came First, The Butterfly or the Flower?
Biologists have long assumed that proboscis-bearing butterflies and moths like those of today (those of the Glossata clade) evolved toContinue Reading
What Bees See
A garden filled with beautiful flowers always attracts our attention, but stunning flowers didn’t evolve to attract human eyes. TheContinue Reading