Our Rare Butterfly Plantation in 2017
February 22, 2018
You may already know that back in 2010 we started developing a patch of habitat for the rarest of our... Read More →
The Burning Butterfly Problem
October 5, 2017
I went out to hunt up a couple of pawpaws late in the afternoon in late September, and noticed a... Read More →
Vanessa Invasion
September 14, 2017
If you’ve set foot outside in the past couple of weeks and found yourself in the vicinity of any flowers,... Read More →
Recording Drought Response on Prairie Blooming
August 7, 2017
Here’s another journal entry from Sibylla Brown – detailing her Timberhill Oak Savannah butterfly observations. During the last two weeks... Read More →
Butterflies and Rabbits: a Gardening Struggle for Me at Mid-Summer
July 31, 2017
I really should not complain because the rains have come at just perfect spacing, the sunshine between has been ample... Read More →
My Summer Journal on Butterfly Sightings
July 3, 2017
We thought you would like to read what Sibylla Brown has taken note of in her journal in the hope... Read More →
Singing the Butterfly Blues
June 29, 2017
Across the continental USA, there are about five dozen butterfly species in a group called the “Blues,” which includes a... Read More →
Annual Report: Lon’s Butterfly Plantation 2016
December 15, 2016
You perhaps already know that in 2010 I began planting some of our rarest native trees, shrubs, and vines, whose... Read More →
Update on Pawpaw Plantation: They’re Blooming!
May 26, 2016
You perhaps already know from my “2015 Annual Report for Rare Plant Project” blog that I have been developing a... Read More →
2015 Annual Report for Rare Butterfly/ Rare Plant Project
January 5, 2016
For the last half century, I have seen the habitat values of southeast Iowa steadily diminish, part of a process... Read More →
