Monarch butterfly visiting Delta sunflower
This is always the best part of growing sunflowers, especially native sunflowers. A visit from a monarch butterfly! As I mentioned in a...
Check out the latest project by Ink Dwell Studios
The Migrating Mural is a series of murals that highlight animals that migrate along corridors they share with humans within the North...
Leafcutting Bee carrying a big Piece of Leaf
Leafcutting Bee female with the piece it cut from a leaf, resting on a yew hedge From the corner of my eye, I caught some movement in...
Satyr Anglewing visiting
This is a first for us. A Satyr Anglewing Polygonia satyrus visited our backyard. I had never seen one before, let alone in our own...
More buckwheat!!!
Yellow-faced bumble bee flying around Ella Nelson's Yellow Nude buckwheat With our ongoing drought conditions, I've come to the...
Celebrate the 5th International Monarch Monitoring Blitz by Participating All Across North America!
Here is your chance to be a citizen scientist and gather data to help the scientific community conserve the monarch butterfly along its...
Gray Hairstreak Butterfly
Skippers and other little native butterflies like to lay their eggs on our Seacliff Eriogonum parvifolium and Ella Nelson's Yellow...
For everyone who is creating habitat and planting milkweed for monarch butterflies
Here is an awesome video with the sound of millions of monarchs flying off of their overwintering site in Mexico. The video was made in...
Ecological Pest Management
Let invertebrates such as ladybugs get rid of your garden pests, instead of using pesticides. Here a Seven Spot Ladybug is at work on one...
Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees at work
We definitely seem to have a lot of Yellow-Faced Bumble Bees Bombus vosnesenskii in the garden. They are so cute. Here is a rear view of...
