My garden is teasing spring, so it’s time to start thinking about how to help our pollinators. For many plants, pollinators play a key role in reproduction, and agriculture relies on them heavily. Without pollinators, we’d lose much of our food, and entire ecosystems would collapse. Today’s blog will provide four pollinator-friendly plants that can ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalIn spring and summer my social media accounts are full of butterfly pictures. Everyone with a garden wants to share shots of their beautiful visitors. Photographing butterflies is one of the few things I do pretty well, and I think I have more than one Facebook friend who hangs around just because of my own ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalToday’s blog is going ramble a bit, with the theme, “What is in my yard today?” I’ll follow up on a few previous blogs, and I’ll take you on a tour of weeds, wildflowers, butterflies, and a few random other things I captured with my camera as I wandered my property this afternoon. While it ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalSkippers are the wallflowers of butterfly world. Many people have seen a drab brown or black skipper in their butterfly gardens and assumed they were being visited by a moth in broad daylight, rather than an actual butterfly. But, no, these visitors are butterflies; they just aren’t always recognized as such. Many people mistake skippers ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalOn March 5th, 2018, the Mexican government released their annual report on wintering monarch butterflies. Every year, thousands of monarchs migrate to a small area of protected fir forests near Mexico City. While some years are better than others, the overall trend since the late 1990s has been downward in butterfly numbers. Unfortunately, however, this ...
Read More | Wildlife Gardening JournalCorrectly identifying butterflies can be difficult even for those with years of experience. The U.S. is blessed with three varieties of “Lady” butterflies, each beloved and beautiful, but often misidentified. Commonly, all three are often called “Painted Ladies”. However, there are actually three different species in the Vanessa genus: Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui), American Ladies ...
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