Butterfly FAQ: Pros and Cons of Tropical Milkweed and What to do with a...
Butterfly FAQs today: What to do with late season Monarch caterpillars you find this winter? And, some thoughts on the pros and cons of Tropical milkweed, that hearty, ubiquitous Monarch butterfly host...
View ArticleScientific Research in Progress at the San Antonio River Museum Reach...
Scientific research underway by the Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project at the San Antonio River Museum Reach Milkweed Patch. SLIDESHOW
View Article“Friendly” Red Admirals and Other Nymphs Slurp Sap in San Antonio, Bode Well...
Red Admirals are descending on San Antonio--and we don't mean military personnel. The "friendly" butterflies slurp sap with help from a woodpecker. High numbers bode well for the 2012 butterfly season.
View ArticleSave the Date: Insecta Fiesta Austin to Feature Live Butterfly House, Cricket...
Live butterfly house with Monarchs and Malachites, cricket spitting contest, cockroach races--save April 21 for the Insecta Fiesta in Austin!
View ArticleAustin’s Insecta Fiesta to Host World’s Largest Katydid and Butterfly...
Rotten bananas and grape Gatorade for feeding the butterflies? Check. Largest Katydid in the world for the insect petting zoo? Delivered safe and sound. Cockroach tractor pull assembled and swept?...
View ArticleFiesta Fatigue? Head for Wings Over the Hills Nature Festival in...
Tired of Fiesta? Do like me and head for the Wings Over the Hills Nature Festival in Fredericksburg this weekend. I'll be talking butterflies, but bats, dragonflies and birds will be discussed and...
View ArticleAlamo, Texas Makes a Great Base for Seeing Birds, Bugs and Butterflies
Alamo, Texas, in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley makes a great base for seeing birds, butterflies and bugs.
View ArticleTime to Harvest Sunflower Seeds: Here’s How to Do it
Sunflowers, great for the butterfly garden, are prolific with flowers and later seeds. Yours are probably hanging their heads by now. Here's how to harvest the sunflower seeds for your bird feeder, a...
View ArticleIMAX Film, Flight of the Butterflies May be Best Chance to see Monarchs this...
The new IMAX film, Flight of the Butterflies, may offer the best chance this season for us to see migrating Monarch butterflies, as 2012 shapes up to be one of the worst in migration history.
View ArticleLate Season Monarch Butterfly Gets Free Flight from New York to San Antonio...
Late season Monarch butterfly gets free ride from Southwest Airlines from New York to San Antonio so it has a better chance of making it to Mexico.
View ArticleJoin us for Rivard Report’s Something Monday event: How to Tag a Monarch...
Join us on the Museum REach at the Milkweed Patch for Something Monday, tomorrow, 6:30 PM. We'll demonstrate how to tag a Monarch butterfly.
View ArticleCan’t Get Outside? Here’s How to Track the Monarch Butterfly Migration from...
Monika, ….I would love to see the migration at the Llano River. We have a 5th wheel [travel trailer] and have camped at the KOA on the Llano River in Junction, Texas…. Is this the area where we would...
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