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Usually when people say they can't have a butterfly garden because they don't want bees, they are unaware of how butterfly habitats work.

Begin snapping photos from a distance and continue to as you slowly approach.

There is more than one way to hang a chrysalis. This can be done with several household supplies that you already have.

Proper butterfly gardening should ALWAYS include a specified location because the same butterflies don't live everywhere.

My observation is that this doesn't teach children the full story of butterflies.

It's hazardous and quite a gamble. Yet it's the ace for the win of a brilliant total make-over.

Being in nature decreases stress, makes you happier, increases creativity, improves attention spans, makes one more kind and generous and ma

Butterfly art is often made at the expense of the butterflies.

Florida has many beautiful native plants that can produce nectar and some are listed in this post. This is not a comprehensive list, but the

A female Monarch is not a Queen! Monarchs and Queens are two separate species.

There are easy ways to replenish your Milkweed.

The garden is our classroom for life truths.

What do we do about aphids on our Milkweed?

With COVID-19 still lurking about, many of us are staying close to home these days. Time in the garden is soothing, refreshing and...

Considering a screened-in butterfly house?

It is spring and our butterfly gardens are coming alive. My landscape includes host plants for dozens of local species (that is nerd...

My first 40 years on earth did not exemplify serenity. I intend to change that for the next 40. My personality is assertive. Many people...

If you want to attract the Gold Rim Swallowtail, you must plant pipevine.

Some people collect plates, shot glasses, baseball cards or tchotchkes. I collect butterflies. I prefer the living kind (no judgement...

This is a moth larva/caterpillar. We can tell by the plant it is eating. Every caterpillar becomes either a butterfly or a moth. It can...