Io Moth Caterpillar

These fascinating moths may be helpful pollinators for your garden. Here’s how to coax them your way

GARDENING GUIDES Central Plains Gardener's June Checklist

The flowers are coming! The flowers are coming! And so are the butterflies, hummingbird moths and coneflower diseases

GARDENING GUIDES 8 Essential Shrubs for Wildlife in the Great Lakes and Midwest

These beautiful native shrubs provide pollen and nectar for bees, and fruit and insects for birds

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Asclepias Incarnata for a Butterfly Garden

Beautiful swamp milkweed makes it easy to help monarchs and other pollinators in eastern U.S. gardens

GARDENING GUIDES Entice Eastern Tiger Swallowtails With Summer Flowers

Grow nectar-rich native bloomers and larval host plants for these endearing butterflies

GARDENING GUIDES Celebrate Eastern Oaks for Wildlife, Longevity and Seasonal Interest

There might not be a more important tree to have in your eastern U.S. landscape — if you can fit one in

GARDENING GUIDES 6 Plants That Beat Butterfly Bush for the Wildlife Draw

It's invasive, a nonnative and a poor insect magnet. Check out these better alternatives to butterfly bush in the garden

CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS Great Design Plant: Coast Live Oak

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By Bill Marken

The stuff of legends and memories, this California tree is one to build a whole landscape around

GARDENING GUIDES Great Design Plant: Asclepias Verticillata

Plant whorled milkweed in dry central and eastern U.S. gardens to attract monarch butterflies and other insect pollinators

FLOWERS AND PLANTS Help Monarchs and Other Butterflies by Planting Common Milkweed

Summer-blooming Asclepias syriaca is an important larval host plant for the monarch butterfly and attracts a number of pollinating insects