Most butterflies eat (actually they “drink”) from nectar plants (while the plants that caterpillars eat are called host plants). Each species of butterflies has nectar plants that they prefer but many adult butterflies will feed from a wide variety of nectar sources. Butterflies are not as specific in their food source as are their caterpillars. A few […]
Plant Name: Anise Plants, (Pimpinella anisum)
Quick Info: Anise & Black Swallowtails / easy / annual / sunny / NOT Star Anise or fennel
Plant Name: Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulata), Bee Spider-Flower, Skunkweed, Stinking Clover, Cleome
Quick Info: Showy pink flowers / nectar powerhouse / herbaceous annual / deer and rabbit resistant
Plant Name: Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulata), Bee Spider-Flower, Skunkweed, Stinking Clover, Cleome
Quick Info: Showy pink flowers / nectar powerhouse / herbaceous annual / deer and rabbit resistant
Plant Name: Dill (Anethum graveolens)
Quick Info: Easy to grow / annual / sunny / culinary herb
Name: Lance-leaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata), Sand Coreopsis, Lanceleaf Tickseed
Quick info: Herbaceous perennial, native in most of continental US, easy to grow, sunshine-yellow daisy-like blooms
Name: Lance-Leaf Coreopsis (Coreopsis Lanceolata), Sand Coreopsis, Lanceleaf Tickseed
Quick info: Perennial, evergreen herbaceous native in most of the continental US, easy to grow, sunshine-yellow daisy-like blooms
Name: Oval-leaf Milkweed, Dwarf Milkweed, Oval Milkweed, Asclepias ovalifolia
Quick info: rare herbaceous perennial, monarch host plant and nectar plant, native to Upper Midwest and Canada
Is a Butterfly an Insect? More insects live on this earth than any other kind of animal. By a long shot! Currently, eight of ten animals alive are insects or other Arthropods. We know of more than a million different species of insects, and are discovering new species all the time. So, what determines insect […]
These homemade butterfly pottery mugs were crafted by a local pottery artist, Sally Shive. The front and back views are shown in the photos.
