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How to Tell a Male Monarch Butterfly From a Female
Male and female monarch butterflies look very similar at first glance. Once you know what to look for, though, telling them apart is surprisingly easy. The best clues are found on the hindwings, where male monarchs have two distinctive black scent glands that females don’t have. How to Identify a Male Monarch Butterfly The easiest…
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How a Monarch Caterpillar Turns Into a Butterfly
A monarch caterpillar and a monarch butterfly look so completely different that it’s hard to believe they’re the same animal. The change happens inside a chrysalis, but it isn’t as simple as a caterpillar growing wings. The process is called complete metamorphosis, and monarchs go through four distinct life stages: egg, larva or caterpillar, pupa…
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What Are Winter Bees and Why Do They Live So Long?
A honey bee born in summer may live only a few weeks. A honey bee born as summer winds down can live for months. They are both worker honey bees. So what changes? The long-lived bees that carry a colony through the coldest part of the year are often called winter bees. They begin appearing…
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Late-Summer Flowers for Bees
By late summer, many gardens are starting to look tired. Spring flowers are long gone. Some summer favorites are fading too. But the bees are still busy. Late summer flowers provide important pollen and nectar. They help honey bees, bumble bees, and many native bees continue feeding as fall approaches. This is one reason I…
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What Is Bee Bread and Why Do Honey Bees Need It?
Honey bees do not live on honey alone. Honey supplies plenty of carbohydrates, but bees also need protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. Much of that nutrition comes through pollen. But honey bees do something interesting with the pollen they carry back to the hive. They pack it into cells and turn it into…
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Which Zinnias Are Best for Butterflies and Pollinators?
Zinnias are one of those flowers that earn their space in a pollinator garden. They bloom for months, come in an enormous range of colors, and attract butterflies, bees, and other insects well into late summer. I planted mostly single-flowered zinnias, a mix called dahlia-flowered, at Bees Haven this year, and they have been especially…
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