As well as attracting bees and other pollinators, asters provide food for migrating monarch butterflies. Early spring is a good time to plant asters in a sunny spot to ensure the best flowers ...

Those butterflies live for about nine months ... They return to their northern breeding grounds in early spring. "There is something about a monarch that seems to capture the feelings of people.

In early spring, when many overwintering insects begin to emerge, they need a readily available source of nourishment to ...

Much of the “early spring” has to do with the warm start ... One example is the monarch butterfly. Scientists have seen the milkweed they depend on to lay their eggs bloom earlier and earlier ...

This common summertime butterfly lays its eggs on Ceanothus shrubs, which become food and living space for its caterpillars. Each year, it lays a first generation of eggs in early spring near the ...

Other insect visitors include blowflies and early spring butterflies such as sulphurs. Trout lilies provide large quantities of pollen on exposed anthers and reservoirs of nectar that are easily ...