Pest Patrol

Create your own butterfly garden with flowers they love

We all love butterflies, and this is the time of the year to plan a garden just for them. It’s always good to incorporate flowers into the landscape, even into a vegetable garden. But it’s even more enjoyable to create a special butterfly garden to sit and watch these delightful insects. Who are our common ...

My Monarch-Friendly Shopping List for Spring

On 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 ...