An empty chrysalis is a tiny miracle, when you think about all it took to get there. It needed a healthy adult butterfly to lay eggs on a specific native plant. There needed to be enough of this plant that remained unmowed and pesticide free. Thanks to the leaves, the caterpillar went through stages of tremendous growth while avoiding predators, disease, and human disturbances. Even if it made it to a chrysalis, many die in this stage, succumbing to parasitoid flies or wasps

A little about the person behind Millers Cove Native Plants... I'm Milly (yes, my name coincidentally sounds similar to my...

With Monarch butterfly migration underway, it has me thinking of how we are connected. Being part of the life of a Monarch can make us...