Posts Tagged: monarchs
Why the Petunia Patch Reigned Supreme Today
All year long, we've been waiting for those majestic monarchs to visit our pollinator garden...
Find the monarch! A monarch stopped to nectar in a Mexican petunia patch Sept. 15 in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Zooming in, you can see the iconic monarch nectaring on a Mexican petunia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Good News Day: Monarchs on the UC Davis Campus
Butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and ecology, has been...
A monarch butterfly nectaring on a showy milkweed, Asclepias speciosa, in Vacaville, California in June, 2016. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bohart Museum of Entomology associate Greg Karoefelas took this image of a monarch in his backyard in Davis on May 6, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Greg Kareofelas)
That Milkweed You Buy at Retail Nurseries May Contain Pesticides
It's Sept. 4, 2019. We notice a monarch butterfly laying eggs on milkweed in an enclosed...
A monarch laying eggs in a Vacaville retail nursery on Sept. 4, 2019. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Monarch Butterflies: Closer to Extinction
It was a good news/bad news/sad news kind of day on July 21 when the International Union for...
A monarch caterpillar munching away on its host plant, milkweed, in a Vacaville, Calif., garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch chrysalis attached to the underside of a bird feeder. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A male monarch butterfly spreads its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A female monarch butterfly spreads its wings. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Guess Who's Back?
"Guess who's back?" butterfly guru Art Shapiro, UC Davis distinguished professor of evolution and...
Monarchs overwintering in the Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz, in 2016. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)