By Amy Yarger, Senior Director of Horticulture at Butterfly Pavilion In 2025, Butterfly Pavilion counted a silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus) during the annual pollinator inventory – the first recorded since Baseline became a community. At first glance, this skipper species looks like a nondescript brown moth, but if you get a good look at it […]
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Coyotes live throughout Colorado, including in Broomfield. You may have spotted one on a recent walk. While there are safety concerns for pets, coyotes are an important apex predator in our community — helping control rodent and rabbit populations (up to 70% of their diet). To successfully coexist with coyotes requires an understanding of how they
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By Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Senior Director of Horticulture Each year, Butterfly Pavilion science staff conducts pollinator surveys at Baseline so that we can evaluate how the pollinators are doing in the Baseline Pollinator District. The team found that not only are many kinds of pollinators finding resources across Baseline’s landscapes, but there have been
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By Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director The statuesque body of a bumble bee seems the opposite of what we think of as aerodynamic, and yet they fly up to 5 kilometers (over 3 miles) to find pollen and nectar. Well, you haven’t seen anything yet! I’d like to introduce you to our native digger
By Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director Is it possible to get tired of butterflies? Back in September 2017, weather radar recorded a 70-mile-wide blob over the Denver metro area; meteorologists realized that the blob was thousands of painted lady butterflies. People on the ground noticed, too – every flower was covered with orange and
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By Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director Imagine you are enjoying an evening stroll in your neighborhood and stoop to smell a vibrant pink rose. All of a sudden, your attention is drawn to the rose’s leaves, which look like someone enthusiastically took a hole puncher to them. Now, for those people who aren’t thinking
Written by Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director Spring has its own energy. We emerge from our winter hibernation ready to take on challenges, fill up our calendars, and try new experiences. However, I hope that none of us is too busy to savor the signs of spring in our gardens and landscapes. The crabapples
If we do our job right, we can be creating the next generation of leaders for environmental stewardship and conservation around the world. ROB O’DEA BOARD CHAIRMAN – BUTTERFLY PAVILION You may wonder why we care so much about bees and butterflies at Baseline. That’s because pollinators allow plants to reproduce, crops to seed, fruit
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Bees and butterflies pollinate our food, and they’re struggling to survive. That’s why Baseline is proud to be the world’s first pollinator district and home to the new Butterfly Pavilion, a global leader in conservation efforts. This beautiful new video by the Butterfly Pavilion explains how together, we’ll lend a wing, er, hand to these
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Butterfly Pavilion needs your help to count neighborhood pollinators this summer! The Baseline community has been designed to provide habitat for pollinators, and Butterfly Pavilion regularly evaluates the progress of Pollinator District landscape goals. This summer, for the first time, Baseline residents can join in the science fun and help document the health of local
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