Island Marble Butterfly Is On the Move!
First-ever sighting of an Island Marble Butterfly at SJPT's Phelps Preserve | Marianne Tynan/Staff archive Last Friday (May 31, 2024) SJPT [...]
Island Marble Butterflies Spotted at Frazer Preserve
Adult Island Marble Butterfly on a field mustard plant, May 2023 | Marianne Tynan Late in May, Kathleen [...]
Why plant a non-native mustard in Island Marble Butterfly gardens?
Why is non-native field mustard (Brassica rapa) used for Island Marble Butterfly habitat planting instead of Menzies' pepperweed (Lepidium virginicum var. menziesii), a native brassica relative?
Island Marble Caterpillars Update
Island marble butterfly larvae emerge from eggs and mature through their five instar stages
See Our May 2020 e-News
View from Turtlehead Preserve, Orcas Island | Kurt Thorson In this month’s issue: Note from Angela: Our Need for [...]
Ode to a Butterfly: A Poem
[Editor's note: A regional writer, whose pen name is Elle Cee Wallace, sent this poem to Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley Lewis [...]
Good Butterfly News!
Adventurous flyer "Amelia" at Frazer Preserve | Photo: Susan Vernon For the last several years, the only place in the world where [...]
Island Marble Butterfly Field Season Ends
Kathleen Foley tends an island marble butterfly habitat expansion plot on Frazer Homestead Preserve The rare island marble butterfly [...]
Have You Seen this Butterfly?
An Island Marble butterfly feeding on field mustard at American Camp | Photo: Jeff Brennan The rare and wonderful [...]
Just Add Butterflies
"Just add butterflies." That's what SJPT Stewardship Manager Kathleen Foley said when she saw this gorgeous bloom of Brassica and Blush [...]
On the Trail of Two Rare Species
Following SJPT’s 38th Annual Meeting in Friday Harbor last month, 20 SJPT members piled into a minibus and took off in [...]