Perhaps your garden is a-flutter with these beauties. Here’s some identification hints.
Tag: butterflies
Audrey Carroll Wildlife Sanctuary: Butterfly Tagging and Nature Walk
A guide to pollinators and their favored plantings for our ecoregion
A company model supports Monarch habitat
Carol forwards a link to a company that has developed interesting products from MILKWEED!
NYT Sunday Review article: “The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear”
Monarch Population Smallest Ever Recorded
Many factors are contributing to decline in Monarch numbers including loss of growing areas for common milkweed, a favored nectar and larval food source.
A Monarch butterfly photo series
Our Birds and Butterflies committee met at Carol LaFon’s home to view Carols Monarch project. Carolyn Seabolt took these pictures.
Have you seen the mighty monarch?
Our Birds and Butterflies chair, Carol LaFon, suggested this article. Carol does her part to promote the population of monarch butterlies and has helped grow milkweed food sources for them by distributing (legal) seeds.
Certain butterflies- mostly MIA this year
I was listening to our Birds and Butterfly chair discussing with another person that she had not seen any Buckeyes this year.
