Happy Butterfly 

This week the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) decided that listing Monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act is "warranted...

The marvelous Gulf Fritillary butterfly ( Agraulis vanillae ) can be seen throughout the southern U.S. They frequent the states...

How citizen scientists helped academia record the Pink Spot Sulphur as a south Florida local.

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...

Attention theology geeks, this is heady and controversial, but it is heavy on my heart. I do not aim to offend, just to be honest. I love...