"Excited for mine to bloom in the next couple weeks." Gardener thrilled as blooming flowers attract special yard visitor: 'I ...

For many of us in the High Country, seeing beautiful butterflies fluttering through the air, or sitting on flowers, is a ...

A versatile garden is a productive garden. To create a butterfly paradise filled with herbs for summer meals, consider some ...

Not surprisingly, pipevine swallowtail larvae feed on the native perennial Dutchman’s pipe vine. Many native perennials such as blazing star, Jacob’s ladder, purple coneflower, ironweed and ...

The spicebush swallowtail needs spicebush, the pipevine swallowtail needs Dutchman’s pipevine, and Baltimores need white turtlehead, according to Penn State.

Conventional wisdom is that if you cultivate host plants, butterflies will come. Take, for example, milkweed. After declining monarch populations began making headlines in the late 1990s, people ...

Spicebush, tiger, and two-tailed swallowtails all start their lives as little brown caterpillars. According to Backyard Ecology, this brown coloration makes them look like bird droppings to ...

In the Garden: A Mexican vacation in Canada for monarch butterflies Tithonia, the Mexican sunflower, is a loved source of nectar in the insect world, including many butterfly species ...

But unlike forsythia, which is both nonnative and sterile, spicebush flowers feed pollinators in springtime. Its leaves feed spicebush-swallowtail caterpillars in summer.

Perhaps in time the spicebush blossom will be as much a harbinger of spring for humans in Northeast Ohio as it is for wildlife. Email gardening questions and ideas to me at [email protected].

A dark morph female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail and a Spicebush Swallowtail become “Pentas Pals” while feeding on Sunstar Red pentas. Norman Winter Special to the Ledger-Enquirer ...