Blue Jay Barrens

In my last post I explained that milkweed pollination depended on an insect, or other flower visiting animal, snagging a pollen cluster, ...

Common Milkweed is now in full bloom at Blue Jay Barrens.  Common Milkweed has a strong network of rhizomes that allow a single stalk to ...

I’ve been admiring some of the Common Milkweed plants that have put on luxuriant growth despite the super dry conditions.   This one ha...

Judging by the numbers of larvae currently present, Monarch butterflies are going to be particularly abundant this summer.   Strong sou...

I began the week with a look at various animals on one type of milkweed, so I thought it appropriate to finish the week with a look at creat...