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 ...

Monarch Butterflies and Their Life Stages

Every once in a while, in the garden, I feel a blessing and witness a miracle. So it was a few weeks ago when I found a Monarch butterfly caterpillar feeding on milkweed plants. I hadn’t found any caterpillars last year and had just about given up on finding any this year. I felt like ...