Written by Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director In popular culture, the universal calling card for bees is bold black and yellow stripes. We associate this striking color combination with bees for a reason – once you get stung, you never forget! Seeing yellow next to black triggers those painful memories and reminds us to […]
Written by Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director Most of us have seen the black-and-white footage of teenage fans screaming for the Beatles, but there are very few people who are fans of U beetles, even though these insects are so important to our ecosystems. What would it take for people to call themselves “Beetles
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By Amy Yarger, Butterfly Pavilion Horticulture Director From early spring until frost, little white butterflies are probably the most common ones we see in our gardens and parks. These butterflies, members of the Pieridae or sulfur family, emerge from winter hibernation in their chrysalids to flutter over weedy spaces, vegetable patches, and along drainages and
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